Teaching Kindness

 My husband and I weren't going to send my almost 5 year old daughter to kindergarden this Monday. She was at the tail end of a slight cough almost fully recovered. We thought one more day of rest at home is all she needed. She woke up early and her daddy went into her room to snuggle. He told her "Brooke your going to stay home today with mommy". She was terribly upset. Brooke loves school. We live in Costa Rica and she goes to the public school where everyone speaks Spanish. Although she was born here her father and I are English spoken from the east coast of the states. She is doing very well learning Spanish but as you can imagine it must be frustrating not always be able to communicate with your classmates. Brooke is my high spirited, strong willed, warrior princess. So even though some days she comes home frustrated she is always excited to go back and do it all again. She loves school! She begged her dad to let her go to school. In a final plea she said "But, I have to go to school to teach those kids how to be nice!" That is my warrior princess who I am sure will accomplish amazing feats in her lifetime!

FB in my dreams

   I had a dream last night. It was so vivid that when it came to me this afternoon I was not completely sure if it had been a dream or a waking memory. I recalled a post from FB. It was a list of numerous previous posts that an individual brought together to make a point. Many of which I recognized being posted on my own news feed by friends. One of these was showing dog abuse and the person responsible. Another post was naming people that were supporting GMO. Another posted pictures of animals abused in the meat and dairy industry. The over all message of the post was telling people to stop placing the blame. Stop reposting photos of horrendous acts to get the message across that it is wrong. As I was reading the post I agreed with it but at the sametime I noticed that they too were reposting horrendous acts to get their point across. This was only continuing to keep it in the minds of the masses under the guise of preventing acts of cruelty. To focus on these things is to give it power wether it be positive or negative it is power, a charge to stay in the conciousness of the masses. For example a dog will stay with an abusive owner because it is given attention, not loving attention as we precieve it but attention non the less. All we truly have control over is ourselves and on what we decide to put or attention.  We decide what seeds we want to sow and carefor with loving thoughts. Placing the blame is not changing the world or our thoughts about it. Thinking of how we can share loving thoughts and what we can post that may lift someone's spirits rather than bring a cloud of hopelessness. Share ideas of compassion and forgivingess for those that "no not what they do". Compassion, forgiviness, ultimately sharing love will change the world!