10 random acts of good karma

Posted on October 5, 2009 by the jodi

jodi sh doff : onlythejodi : karma : bodhisattvaThis is how easy it is to spit into the karma pool every day.

  1. Report good service when you get it from customer service reps, cashiers, civil servants, tech support teams, co-workers, waitresses, etc. to their supervisors.
  2. Give your seat to the person who needs it more than you. That man with all those packages, the woman who just looks tired, the mom who’s kid won’t sit unless she sits next to him…
  3. Say thank you. Even when no one else does.
  4. Hold the door, within reason.
  5. Let that person with just one item go ahead of you in line at the supermarket, and bring your own bags when you go shopping.
  6. Don’t take more than you need, of anything, even if it’s free.
  7. When you have more than you need, of anything, share it.
  8. Listen when someone else is talking, instead of waiting for them to stop talking so you can start.
  9. Apologize for your actions, not for their reactions.
  10. Leave something for the next person…

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in a pig’s eye

Posted on September 19, 2009 by the jodi

Find something you love, a service you can do that you really love. It’ll change your life in ways you cannot imagine.

I went up to the Green Chimneys’ farm on Friday, like I usually do, but yesterday when I woke up, my heart wasn’t in it. I went anyway, I’d made a commitment and I knew what would happen once I was there. GC is a residential school for kids with emotional and behavioral problems, it’s also a farm and wildlife sanctuary. The kids help the animals & the animals help the kids. It’s been working just fine for 63 years, before people even started talking about the human-animal bond.

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Copper's Wall of Love

Yesterday was Copper’s first Birthday. He’s grown up on the Green Chimney’s farm since he was a little bitty piglet and one day in the not to distant future he will be a big, a very big pig. But for now he’s cuddly and happy to sit on command if it means food, which it usually does. We brought him inside so he could have a party with balloons & cards & gifts of blueberries, carrots, apples, oranges and grapes and lots & lots of visitors of all ages. Happy Birthday was sung more than once.   Continue reading →

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keep it movin’

Posted on September 18, 2009 by the jodi

It would help if I knew where I was going.

I don’t. I only know I’m on the right path and while I’m pretty clear that the journey is more important than the destination, I’m still the girl who needs to know things. Not knowing drives me crazy.

But the journey is about growth & compassion, about releasing the angel that already lives inside of me. It’s about faith & creativity and as my friend Edie Jane says, Just do the work.

Airplanes have auto-pilot. You set your final destination, push go (whatever, leave me alone on this one) and the plane goes where you want it to. I imagine it’s something like my GPS system, but without me having to physically turn the wheel, hit the gas or slam on the brakes.

In a perfect world, with no friction, turbulence, pressure, wind or change, the plane would go from A to B in a straight line.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t live in a perfect world. Continue reading →

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