About Me
I'm joining Service Space because ... I am learning to embrace service in every aspect of my life. The opportunity to practice generosity with Service Space as well as in my everyday life, has cracked my heart wide open.
A good day to me is when ... I am smiling and in my heart.
My hero in life is ...Mahatma Ghandi.
My favorite book is ...Peace Pilgrim. I am so inspird by Peace Pilgrim's trust in her path and the simplicity of her message.
One thing I'm grateful for is ... The community of noble friends, whose love and support have given me the courage to look deeply within.
Art Trail SF "Live Art Salon" With Photographer Bryant
May 24, 2019, 11 smiles
David Kriozere, a long time ServiceSpace friend since the early 2000s, is leading a beautiful effort — Art Trail SF — with a vision of building community through public art based on the work of local artists. Please join us on Tues, May 28 @ 7p for Art Trail SF's first Live Art Salon featuring a conversation with Bryant Austin entitled "Light+Shadow".
Location: The Center SF, 548 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA 94117.
From Library To Post Office :)
Jan 08, 2018, 1 comments, 12 smiles
In November, a few of us visited a local library to share stories around the themes of gratitude and kindness. A librarian there had invited us to speak with their community on those themes, in the spirit of the Thanksgiving and holiday season. We'd planned a presentation with a bunch of stories from experiments, like our school Kindness Circles, the love warriors in Teach Me To Be Wild, and even a gratitude card-making activity.
On the night of the event, it turned out that the audience ended up being quite an intimate bunch: two very sweet grandmothers in attendance. :) For us, it's always been more about depth than breadth:), and It ended up being the most beautiful evening! We scrapped our presentation and simply had a circle of sharing and conversation around all of our experiences in gratitude and kindness. The librarian actually had to (very kindly) kick us out ... Read Full Story
Yesterday I Was At Wendy Johnson’s ...
Oct 01, 2017, 1 comments, 16 smiles
Yesterday I was at Wendy Johnson’s garden sale (Wendy is one of the founders of the Organic Farm and Garden Project at Green Gulch Zen Center) and I was sharing with her about our Kindness Circles. Earlier this summer I had participated in a “seed blessing ceremony” in Wendy's garden and she had gifted us “peace rocks” gathered by an elder in Mill Valley. I brought several of the peace rocks to our Kindness Circle at SF Waldorf HS in August, and shared the story with the students.
Wendy loved hearing the student's reflections and the activity of writing an intention for the year. Right on the spot, she invited me to share this story at today’s "Harvest Ceremony" in her garden. So I brought the student intentions with me and everyone at the ceremony, gathered under the apple and pear trees in the garden, held the bowl and showered their ... Read Full Story
Smiles From West Portal :)
Aug 25, 2017, 12 smiles
Our spirited Kindness Team gathered for another Kindness Circle with the senior class of SF Waldorf High School yesterday!
Photos coming soon -- and in the meantime, one of the teachers found this spontaneous post on a neighborhood social network -- about the random acts of kindness that the students did together! :)
Pamela Sukhum: Transformative Art: Practicing Devotion
Mar 02, 2014, 6 smiles
Pamela Sukham's warmth and openheartedness invites us all to find the artist within and to experience life and all it’s infinite possibilities on a path for beauty and truth. In this Awakin call conversation, hosted by Bela, Pamela shares her journey from one captivating story to the next, beginning with a life changing realization that she needed to leave a stable career to trust an inspiration… to paint. It was a joy to moderate this call, being introduced to Pamela through the kindness of Pavi a year earlier. The two artists share the same title for their work, Infinite Vision!
Pamela trusts her heart, from moment to moment, inspiration to inspiration, connection to connection. Each project unfolds organically. As an example, an email exchange about art techniques with a Vietnam Veteran inspired Pamela to bring art and healing through her “Beautiful Project” to a VA Medical Center. On the road for ... Read Full Story
Awakin Call With Rick Hanson
Feb 20, 2014, 1 comments, 3 smiles
A joyful collaboration by Bethany Lyttle and Anne Veh~
Dr. Rick Hanson is a neuropsychologist and an authority on self-directed neuroplasticity. Wondering what the heck that really means? Think of it this way: You have a physical brain and neurology tends to focus on that. Then you have emotions, moods, and feelings and psychologists tend to focus on that. What Dr. Hanson does is meld the two, suggesting a two-way street of sorts. The brain’s structure, he says, influences our emotions, but our emotions also influence (very literally) the structure of our brains. In his books Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture, Hanson asserts that the active use of good experiences can be harnessed to alter our overall response to the world.
Hanson was in college when he first noticed
that even the most trivial-seeming positive experiences made a difference to his mental health and wellbeing. A smile from ... Read Full Story
