"There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit - the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through those who are different from us - the child who's hungry, the laid-off steelworker, the immigrant woman cleaning your dorm room..." ----Barack Obama
Building Community through Empathy in Mendocino group meets tonight at 6:45PM at 750A Central Street (alley entrance). We are planning how to proceed empathically in Mendocino County on Oct 2nd, UN International Day of Non-Violence and 1st annual Internatinal Day of Empathic Action (IDEA).
Ideas to date: Listening Posts, Street Empathy, Free Hugs (www.freehugscampaign.org), handing out copies of World Peace Poem (inspired by Give Peace a Deadline: Feb 14, 2014 www.P5Y.org)
So much to do...let's have empathy and joy in the doing!
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