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Feeling glum? 10 positive stories you may have missed

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is still some good happening in the world. Here are ten of the University of Sydney’s most promising and positive stories that you may have missed.

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MEET HIHEYHELLO, THE NEW ADVENTURE MAGAZINE FOR WOMEN

This week in Women in the Mountains, we sat down with Editor in Chief Sierra Domaille and Art Director Juhee Kim of HiHeyHello magazine. Their new adventure magazine seeks to shake up women’s media by highlighting the outdoors, sport, and creativity in one beautifully designed print magazine. HiHeyHello magazine photo.

Believing in ‘Miracles’: Christian animated video series shares message ‘ofGod’

Sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration to get a project off the ground.

The award-winning “ofGod: Miracles” is the first in a series of animated videos created by Grosse Pointe Woods resident David S. Tumpkin.

Bounceback Bharat: Inspirational stories, e-conclaves to support nation building, spread positivity amid Covid-19

India’s leading radio network, Fever Network, has launched a novel campaign ‘Bounce Back Bharat – Radio’s First Digital Conclave’, which aims to support nation building and to spread positivity through inspirational stories in the Covid-19 era.

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Inclusive Tech to Power Businesses

07August2020_business More demand for tech-enabled jobs across industries; cybersecurity, privacy measures to be beefed up for protecting critical data

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Bounceback Bharat: Inspirational stories, e-conclaves to support nation building, spread positivity amid Covid-19

07aug2020_bouncebackbharat India’s leading radio network, Fever Network, has launched a novel campaign ‘Bounce Back Bharat – Radio’s First Digital Conclave’, which aims to support nation building and to spread positivity through inspirational stories in the Covid-19 era.

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Inspiring: Azharuddin- a taxi driver’ son clears UPSC exam

07aug2020upsc Despite having financial difficulties, his mother Meraj focused on providing quality education to her children.

Umbrella Academy star Ellen Page’s inspiring and touching coming out story

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Oscar-nominated actress Ellen Page famously came out in a speech at a Human Rights Campaign event in 2014, but what spurred her decision to embrace being in the LGBTQ+ community?

Inspiring Stories Of Visually Impaired IAS Aspirants Who Cracked UPSC In 2020

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Visually-impaired people do not see the world as we do. However, they are inspired by the same things are the rest of us are – stories of people making the society a better place and helping each other at the time of crisis.

23-year-old Gokul from Tirumala never let his complete visual impairment get in the way of his dream – becoming an IAS officer and working towards the betterment of the country. He cracked UPSC 2019 and ranked 804, reports The New Indian Express.

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Mosques in Ayodhya spread message of communal harmony ahead of Ram temple’s bhoomi pujan’

There are 8 mosques and 2mausoleums located close to Ram Janmabhoomi premises

With days to go for the August 5 “bhoomi pujan” ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, the mosques adjacent to the Ram Janmabhoomi premises are spreading the message of communal harmony.

“It is the greatness of Ayodhya that the mosques surrounding the Ram temple are giving a strong message of communal harmony to the rest of the world,” Haji Asad Ahmad, the corporator of the Ram Kot ward, told PTI.

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IN SEARCH OF A GUIDE

suftmystic A man is going in search of truth. As he comes out of his city, he finds an old man sitting under a tree. The young man does not know where to go in search of truth. He has heard that one has to go somewhere in search of truth, one has to go on a pilgrimage — but where? Roads go to all sides. Which road is the road?

Seeing the old man sitting under the tree, he thought: perhaps this man is old enough; he must know which road leads to truth. And he asked the man. He said, “Yes I know the road. Follow the right and go on until you come to a certain tree” — he described the tree in detail, its leaves, its fruit — “and you will find under it a very old man… just to give you an example, something like me but thirty years older. This is the man who is going to be your guide.”

The man was very happy. He thanked the old man and rushed towards the way he had shown him. For thirty years he was wandering and wandering, and the tree never came and the old man never came. He was getting tired, and he himself was getting old, and he said, “What nonsense!”

Finally he decided, “It is better to go back home… enough is enough! Thirty years I have wasted in searching truth, and I have not even met the old man who is going to be my guide. And God knows, when the guide meets me, what kind of guidance it will be and how long it will take. It seems to be too complicated; it is better to go home. I was running a good business. I destroyed the business and unnecessarily got into trouble hearing this word `truth’ again and again.”

He came back. Again he passed the tree — and he was shocked! This was the tree the old man had described. And he looked under the tree and the old man was there — the same old man, thirty years older and exactly the same as the description in every way. He said, “My God! Then why did you waste my thirty years?”

He said, “I wasted your thirty years — or you wasted my thirty years? At that time you were not ripe enough to be guided, because I gave all the guidance and you didn’t even look at the tree — and I was describing it in minute detail. I was describing your guide in minute detail, and you did not look at me, to see that I am describing myself. You were in such a hurry; you were too young. But nothing is wasted. I was, waiting, knowing that one day you will come back, one day you will recognize this tree, one day you will recognize this old man, that I am your guide!”

Interpretation : The story is immensely significant. It signifies we will surely find what we are looking for..wherever ot may be and from whoever it may be

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My Story Is Inspiring Others To Take Up Online Sports Seriously’

Aaditya Sawant, famously known as Dynamo to the online gaming freaks, is a PUBG superstar. Dynamo’s videos are seen by lakhs on YouTube and his fan following is no less than a top cricketer

Based on an inspirational real life story, Australian film Penguin Bloom is selected for Toronto

It’s an inspirational Australian story, about a struggling family whose lives are changed when they find a baby magpie, that first went viral on Instagram then became a bestselling book.

And now a film, Glendyn Ivin’s Penguin Bloom, based on that book, will have a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Northamptonshire woman to lead team of over 70s as they swim the English Channel

The team will be raising much-needed funds for the Children’s Air Ambulance

A team of over 70s lead by a local woman will be taking on the gruelling challenge of swimming the English Channel.

Nagaland: Toyi Swuro’s inspiring story: From part time cobbler to owning ‘Craft Gallery’

26 years old Toyi Swuro is a local entrepreneur from Phek town and takes pride in his profession as a Cobbler. He opened Craft Gallery in 2018 which deals with all types of leathers such as leather footwear, leather goods such as purse, wallets, belts, upholstery, leather straps for various purposes. A unique feature of Craft Gallery is that it provides services to students and underprivileged citizens by helping them repair their footwear at minimal charges or sometimes free of cost.

Tale of the Journeying Stream : Sufi Parable

A stream, from its course in far-off mountains, passing through every kind and description of countryside, at last reached the sands of the desert. Just as it had crossed every other barrier, the stream tried to cross this one, but found that as fast as it ran into the sand, its waters disappeared.

It was convinced, however, that its destiny was to cross this desert, and yet there was no way. Now a hidden voice, coming from the desert itself, whispered: “The wind crosses the desert, and so can the stream.”

The stream objected that it was dashing itself against the sand, and only getting absorbed: that the wind could fly, and this was why it could cross a desert.

“By hurtling in your own accustomed way you cannot get across. You will either disappear or become a marsh. You must allow the wind to carry you over, to your destination.

But how could this happen? “By allowing yourself to be absorbed in the wind.”

This idea was not acceptable to the stream. After all, it had never been absorbed before. It did not want to lose its individuality. And, once having lost it, how was one to know that it could ever be regained?

“The wind,” said the sand, “performs this function. It takes up water, carries it over the desert, and then lets it fall again. Falling as rain, the water again becomes a river.”

“How can I know that this is true?” “It is so, and if you do not believe it, you cannot become more than a quagmire, and even that could take many, many years. And it certainly is not the same as a stream.”

“But can I not remain the same stream that I am today?”

“You cannot in either case remain so,” the whisper said. “Your essential part is carried away and forms a stream again. You are called what you are even today because you do not know which part of you is the essential one.”

When it heard this, certain echoes began to arise in the thoughts of the stream. Dimly it remembered a state in which it — or some part of it? — had been held in the arms of a wind. It also remembered — or did it? — that this was the real thing, not necessarily the obvious thing to do.

And the stream raised its vapor into the welcoming arms of the wind, which gently and easily bore it upwards and along, letting it fall softly as soon as they reached the roof of a mountain, many, many miles away. And because it had its doubts, the stream was able to remember and record more strongly in its mind the details of the experience. It reflected, “Yes, now I have learned my true identity.”

Interpretation

We go through many directions till we find our real identity in life. This is the way life has been designed by the supreme.

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What went right this week: Paris pedalled forwards, plus other good news stories

Paris voted for a cycling revolution and women’s football was given a boost, plus other stories of progress

Real Madrid finally launched a women’s football team

Women’s football was given a boost this week with the announcement that the Spanish club, Real Madrid, will launch its first female football team next season. Real had been one of the only clubs in Europe without a women’s team.

Farm to fork: the open database that lets people buy food direct from source

Set up by food activists during lockdown, Farms to Feed Us connects people with farmers and growers across the country

Positive news as more than 300 Covid recoveries at north Cumbria hospitals

The trust which runs NHS hospitals across north Cumbria has shared the good news that more than 300 patients have been discharged having recovered from coronavirus.

Inspiration Games offers a ‘strange’ experience for world-class athletes

Americans Tianna Bartoletta, left, Allyson Felix, center, and Candace Hill celebrate after winning the women’s 3×100-meter relay during the Weltklasse Zurich Inspiration Games at Mt. San Antonio College on Thursday.

Three runners take their place in the starting blocks for a hurdles race; two are bathed in sunshine, the other shadowed by gloomy skies.

CNY Inspirations: The ‘inner loving voice’

Some of you have sadly experienced the traumatic death of loved ones due to COVID 19. Some of you have cared for patients, and some of you have recovered or are recovering. Yet all of us have been affected emotionally and spiritually and perhaps have struggled for the perspective to respond to the anxieties of others.

Fable : Acceptance

Once upon a time there was a world famous teacher in AenTakkasila, in north-western India. He had 500 high class students who learned sacred teachings from him.

It just so happened that one of these high class students had been named ‘Bad’ by his parents. One day he thought, “When I am told, ‘Come Bad’, ‘Go Bad’, ‘Do this Bad’, it is not nice for me or others. It even sounds disgraceful and unlucky.”

So he went to the teacher and asked him to give him a more pleasant name, one that would bring good fortune rather than bad. The teacher said, “Go my son, go wherever you like and find a more fortunate name. When you return, I will officially give you your new name.”

The young man named Bad left the city, and traveled from village to village until he came to a big city. A man had just died and Bad asked what his name was. People said. “His name was Alive.” “Alive also died?” asked Bad. The people answered, “Whether his name be Alive or whether it be Dead, in either case he must die. A name is merely a word used to recognize a person. Only a fool would not know this!” After hearing this, Bad no longer felt badly about his own name — but he didn’t feel good about it either.

As he continued on his way into the city, a debt-slave girl was being beaten by her masters in the street. He asked, “Why is she being beaten?” He was told, “Because she is a slave until she pays a loan debt to her masters. She has come home from working, with no wages to pay as interest on her debt.” “And what is her name?” he asked. “Her name is Rich.” they said. “By her name she is Rich but she has no money even to pay interest?” asked Bad. They said, ‘Whether her name be Rich or whether it be Poor, in either case she has no money. A name is merely a word used to recognize a person. Only a fool would not know this!” After hearing this, Bad became even less interested in changing his name.

After leaving the city, along the roadside he met a man who had lost his way. He asked him, “What is your name? ” He replied, ‘My name is Tourguide.” “You mean to say that even a Tourguide has gotten lost?” asked Bad. Then the man said, “Whether my name be Tourguide or whether it be Tourist, in either case I have lost my way. A name is merely a word used to recognize a person. Only a fool would not know this!”

Now completely satisfied with his own name, Bad returned to his teacher.

The world famous teacher of Takkasila asked him, “How are you, my son? Have you found a good name?” He answered, “Sir, those named Alive and Dead both die, Rich and Poor may be penniless, Tourguide and Tourist can get lost. Now I know that a name is merely a word used to recognize a person. The name does not make things happen, only deeds do. So I’m satisfied with my name. There’s no point in changing it.”

The teacher summarized the lesson his pupil had learned this way — “By seeing Alive as dead, Rich as poor, Tourguide as lost, Bad has accepted himself.”

Interpretation

This fable shows us all about self acceptance. We all need to accept the situation we find ourselves in and try our best to the best possible extent without denying there is a problem if we face one.

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‘This daughter is god’s gift to me’ ……

For 70-year-old Sarojini, Mini is her own daughter who does her hair and helps in wearing clothes. As she comes out of the house, holding Mini…

The GREAT and good of inspirational businesses during the coronavirus pandemic

A Newtownards-based company that specialises in baby products changed tack to produce face shields

Zen Story: Hidden Meanings

A young Zen student was on his way to buy vegetables at the market for his monastery. On the way, he encountered a student he had seen occasionally, from a monastery some distance from his own.

“Where are you going?” he asked.

“Where my legs direct me”, replied the other fellow nonchalantly.

Our young fellow turned this answer over in his mind – surely there was some meaning hidden in its depths? Back at the monastery, he recounted this conversation to his elderly master, who said: “You ought to have asked the boy what he’d do if he didn’t have any legs.”

The next day, the student chanced upon the other boy again. “Where are you going?” he asked, and before the boy could reply, he continued, “Oh, I know…wherever your legs direct you, I suppose!”

“Nope!” came the unexpected response. “Today, I am going to follow the wind!” This reply threw the student into so much confusion that his mind went blank. Back again at the monastery, he related the incident to his teacher.

“You should have asked him what he’d do if no wind was blowing,” remarked the old man.

A few days later, the student came upon the other boy once more in the market. Aha! Here was his Zen moment!

“So where are you off to this time? Where your legs go or where the wind blows, I suppose. But, what if…”

“Neither of the two,” replied the boy, with a cheeky grin. “Today, I am here to buy vegetables!”

Interpretation

We don’t really need to interpret everything all the time. We can just be going wherever life takes us.

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Thank You, Neighbor: 50+ Good News Stories From All 50 States

We celebrate Americans from all 50 states who are spreading peace, lending a helping hand and building community.

‘Keep up the fantastic work’ – Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp praises ‘inspirational’ Derry Girl for on street exercises

Liverpool may be on the brink of clinching the Premier League but they’ve already won fans in Londonderry’s Creggan Estate, by sending a message to a special little girl.

8-year-old Grace Morrow became the star of the on-street exercise routines – featured on UTV during the lockdown.

‘Keep up the fantastic work’ – Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp praises ‘inspirational’ Derry Girl for on street exercises

H-1b visa rejection: Kunal Bahl’s inspiring story should be a lesson for everyone

Read the inspirational story of a 36-year-old Indian entrepreneur who founded a unicorn startup when his H-1B visa got rejected

Inspirational young Ellesmere Port brothers’ words of kindness feature in Amazon best-seller

AN Ellesmere Port fundraising family are celebrating after two youngsters have become best-selling authors.

Six-year-old Andrew and brother Aaron, five, both wrote a story for the book Kindness as part of the Child Author Project.

Domino scientist honoured by RSC for African Initiative

A senior scientist at Cambridge inkjet technology business Domino Printing has been honoured by his peers for his outstanding contribution to proactively and inclusively supporting colleagues and the wider scientific community.

Farm Labourer’s Daughter Beats Poverty, Gender Stereotypes to Become Deputy Collector

A brother who dropped out of college to earn and a mother who toiled under the harsh sun to support Wasima Shaikh’s dreams. How this family fought stereotypes to educate their little girl.

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Four Scouts receive organisation’s highest honour

Four dedicated Scouts from the Swansea valleys and Brecon are set to receive Scouting’s highest honours.

The volunteers are set to receive the Award for Merit and Chief Scouts’ Commendation for Good Service awards thanks to their commitment to ScoutsCymru over the decades.

They are among 82 inspirational Welsh Scouts who are set to be recognised as part of this year’s Roll of Honour celebration.

Dreaming of being your own boss?

These inspirational business owners prove it can be done – and reveal their surprisingly simple tips for going it alone

The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t just attacked our health, but our livelihoods, too.

Millions of British people have been furloughed, while many more have lost their jobs entirely as businesses have succumbed to the impact of the lockdown.

However, some have managed to weather the storm.

These savvy eBay business owners share their inspirational stories as to how they became their own bosses, and how they’ve been able to stay in the green during these bleak times…

Survey shows Covid-19 inspiring innovation in SA short-term insurance sector

DURBAN – Results of a survey conducted amongst 1200 Old Mutual Insure (OMI) and Elite brokers provides rich data on just how significantly the Covid-19 crisis and, especially, the national lockdown has impacted the short-term insurance industry.

Of interest is a range of positive innovations that brokers believe lockdown is likely to leave in its wake. These unexpected learnings are likely to benefit the industry long after lockdown is lifted.

Significantly, Covid-19 lockdown has bought home, now more than ever, the need to save. Black swan events like the current global pandemic illustrate, that nothing can be taken for granted. The unforeseen is ever present. And the best preparation for the unforeseen is savings.

Survey results also indicate how Covid-19

Rapid City Correctional Officer works to help and inspire incarcerated youth

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN-TV)- A correctional officer in Rapid City grew up in Detroit. She’s lived all around the globe while serving in the military, and now works with some of the most violent incarcerated kids around.

Correctional Officer Anesha T. Morton at the Juvenile Services Center traveled all over the world in the U.S. Air Force. Now she works to inspire troubled youth.

But she’s not just working with them, she’s inspiring them, ”Along the Way” at the Juvenile Services Center.

As we watch Anesha T. Morton unlock her keys for the highly secure Juvenile Services Center, there’s a sort of beep, beep, beep, and a buzz, before the key box door will open.

These e-Plant Doctors Can Help Solve Farmers’ Crop Woes in Minutes. Here’s How.

When K Pathi noticed the notorious Fall ArmyWorm attack his corn plants, he didn’t rush to get pesticides. He did something entirely different.

Zen Story: Perfect Silence

Four pupils used to practice meditation in the time before Zen came to Japan.
These close friends vowed to each other to observe silence for seven days.

The first day passed well.
But as the evening progressed and the oil lamps became dim, one student couldn’t help himself.

“Attend to the lamps!” he shouted impatiently to an assistant.

His friend turned to him, surprised.
“You are not supposed to speak! Have you forgotten?”

The third friend piped up, “You fools! Why are you talking?”

“Hah, I’m the only one who’s kept silent!” exclaimed the last.

Before judging others, pause for a moment and ask – how perfect am I?

Interpretation : We need to know how to never judge anyone else in the journey of our lives to lead a holistic, complete life.

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Creating a Positive Working Environment – 8 Ways to Motivate Your Employees

To have happy and content employees who are productive and effective, it’s not enough to tell them to stay positive. Creating a happy and inspiring working environment involves several aspects. As a manager or the owner, you will have to do more to motivate your workers to contribute more and to help them be healthier and more content.

Meet the Inspiring Teen Whose Black Lives Matter Protest Brought In Thousands of People Mikiiya Foster wasn’t quite prepared for what was waiting for her when she arrived at the corner of Sycamore and Cochran on Saturday, June 6.

Hoda Kotb gives first look at follow-up book to ‘I Really Needed This Today’

The uplifting book comes out Oct. 13.

I Wanted to Help During COVID-19 & Here’s How I Found the Right Way to Do It

This online platform will help you make an informed choice about the cause or NGO you want to help while giving you tax benefits

CDC joining efforts to address northern Utah COVID-19 spike, assist immigrants and refugees Volunteers asking: ‘How can we be good neighbors to each other?’

Randy Williams, a member of the Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection board, left, volunteer Bruce Haslem, Jess Lucero, another board member, and Matt Whitaker, director of the Cache Community Food Pantry, load a car with food donations at the pantry in Logan on Thursday, June 11, 2020. Nonprofits, state and local government and churches have teamed up to assist refugees in northern Utah who work at a meatpacking plant in Hyrum, Cache County, and have tested positive for COVID-19. The recent rise in cases statewide is attributed to the outbreak at JBS where many refugees and immigrants work. Laura Seitz, Deseret News

Understand people to motivate them

There was once a small boy who banged a drum all day and loved every moment of it. He would not be quiet, no matter what anyone else said or did. Various people who called themselves Sufis, and other well-wishers, were called in by neighbors and asked to do something about the child. The first so-called Sufi told the boy that he would, if he continued to make so much noise, perforate his eardrums; this reasoning was too advanced for the child, who was neither a scientist nor a scholar. The second told him that drum beating was a sacred activity and should be carried out only on special occasions. The third offered the neighbors plugs for their ears; the fourth gave the boy a book; the fifth gave the neighbors books that described a method of controlling anger through biofeedback; the sixth gave the boy meditation exercises to make him placid and explained that all reality was imagination. Like all placebos, each of these remedies worked for a short while, but none worked for very long.

Eventually, a real Sufi came along. He looked at the situation, handed the boy a hammer and chisel, and said, “I wonder what is INSIDE the drum?”

Interpretation : We need to understand people to make them do what we wish them to do. This is what good management of companies and even our lives is all about.

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Inspiration is Just a Podcast Away

Science has shown that, “Thinking positive, happy, hopeful and optimistic thoughts decreases Cortisol [the body’s stress hormone] and produces Serotonin [the body’s natural anti-depressant], which creates a sense of well-being. This helps the brain function at peak capacity.”

These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids

The conversation about race needs to start early and keep happening.

Myka Stauffer and the Aggressively Inspirational World of “Adoption Influencers”

Huxley Stauffer had been turned into content before he even met the people who would become his parents. As early as July 2016, YouTube influencer Myka Stauffer was posting videos to YouTube about the long, complex process of adopting a boy from China. She talked about convincing her husband to adopt, cried while describing administrative delays, and exulted when the process inched forward. Over the years, Stauffer and her husband, James, posted 27 videos on their “adoption journey,” including a heartwarming montage of the family’s trip to China to retrieve their 2½-year-old son in 2017. Afterward, they kept their hundreds of thousands of viewers updated on the boy’s growth and his relationships with their biological children. That is, until earlier this year, when attuned fans began noticing that Huxley had quietly stopped appearing in the couple’s videos.

Soldier-Turned-IRS Officer Rallies Efforts, Aids Hundreds of Migrants in Bengaluru

The 47-year-old Additional Commissioner of Income Tax of Mumbai is a Shaurya Chakra awardee, for his bravery in an encounter with terrorists along the LoC in 2017.

Learning from others about honouring nature

Management Seminar. He was traveling in Uttar Pradesh with his wife for a picnic while he was the Chief Election Commissioner. On the wa, they saw a large mango plantation filled with sparrow nests. Seeing this, they went down there and his wife wanted to take two nests home. The police escort called a young boy who was grazing cows in the fields and demanded to bring the nests down and offered to pay him Rs10. He refused, so Seshan raised the offer to Rs.50. The policeman asked the boy to do it as Seshan was a big officer. The boy told Seshan and his wife ‘Saabji I will not do it for whatsoever you will give.’ He continued, ‘inside those nests, there will be baby sparrows, if I give you those nests to you, in the evening when mother sparrow returns with food for the babies and do not find them there, she will cry. I do not have the heart to see that’. Hearing this Seshan and his wife were shocked. Seshan says my position and the IAS melted away in front of that little boy. I was in front of him like a mustard seed. They gave up their wish and after returning, this incident continued to haunt him with guilt for days. Education, position or social status in never the yardstick for the measure of humanity. Knowledge is to know nature. We don’t achieve anything by gathering a lot of information. Life becomes blissful when you have knowledge, sense & wisdom.

Interpretation : We do need to learn how to respect nature and learn lessons from those who do, irrespective of their background

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Kind gesture: Concord sisters aid Greater Boston Food Bank

Artist pair find lockdown inspiration in ‘hopeful’ book project

Aritsts Mike Pert (left) and John Midgley with their concertina-style book featuring more than 40 original paintings, drawings and collages. Picture: ARCHANT

A pair of artist friends have completed their second book featuring 40 original paintings, drawings and collages, two months after being forced to put the project on hold by lockdown.

Some good news to take you into the long weekend

According to one study, the lockdown has taken a psychological toll on the people. On the other hand, the months of April and May have seen the nicest weather since records began.

The Good News Collective – May 28 edition

The Good News Collective is a handful of short, positive news blurbs designed to remind us that there is still a lot of good going on out there in the world amidst the COVID pandemic.

Finally, a bit of good news: some national parks are reopening

As they straggle forth from long weeks of isolation, Canadians seeking a path headed toward something resembling sanity were thrown a lifeline on Wednesday.

Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkerson told The Canadian Press that 29 of the country’s 48 national parks will reopen for day use this coming Monday.

Fable : Team Work

A Businessman gets stranded on a lonely highway in the US.

The tyres of his car get stuck badly in a mud pool.

He looks around for help and finally finds an old farmer.

The businessman goes to him asking for help to get his car out of the mud.

Farmer gauges the situation, and agrees to help him and says, let us take the help of warwick, an old bull at the farm.

The farmer ties the bull to the car and start shouting loudly, “FRED, PULL!… JACK, PULL!… JOHN, PULL… WARWICK, PULL…”

As the farmer keeps shouting these words, the bull Warwick gets the car out of the pool of mud.

The Businessman is relieved but has a doubt in his mind.

He thanks the farmer and asks him, “You said the bull’s name was Warwick, and he was alone, then who were Fred, Jack & John?”

The Farmer answered, “See, Warwick is old and is also blind. He does not know he is pulling this car alone. The moment he hears the other names, he thinks he is in a team, and he gives his best”.

So is the case with all of us.

The very thought that there are others in this same situation as us, gives us a great deal of comfort, hope, confidence and enthuses us to put our heart and soul into any task that we undertake.

It’s not without reason that the very word *TEAM* is said to stand for *”Together Everyone Achieves More”*.

This too shall pass…

Let’s work as a team to overcome the crisis …

Interpretation

Like it is shown in the tale, we are born to work in teams to lead a complete and holistic life.