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KarunaNews: The Women Pioneers Creating Green Jobs In Arab Countries
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KarmaTube just posted Cultivating Wisdom: The Power of Mood. |
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We recently started seeing surge of new folks signing up from Vietnam. It turned you that Phong Nguyen wrote his first novel, "Many Lives, Many Times" in 2020, and then a second volume -- which featured ServiceSpace. It has already sold a million copies! (FYI, you can have NYT best-seller with 5 thousand copies.) Thank you, Phong! |
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40 youth from around India gathered for a first-of-its-kind Youth Retreat in India! Watch this video for a flavor. For so many, it was the first time being in their own bed. |
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KarunaNews: They Breed Millions Of Insects To Help Farmers Choose Predators Over Pesticides
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Karuna News: Planet-Friendly Diet Could Reduce Disease Risk
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"My father was 67 when he died, and that's too young, but lately, as I stare at some hard realities of aging and mortality, I begin to appreciate the fact that he didn't have to endure a long period of frailty, pain, and dependence. My father was himself to very the end, brilliant and good and a force of nature, the most important person in my world, and I miss him terribly even now. Maybe especially now. I find solace in these words from a poem my friend Naomi Shihab Nye wrote after the death of her own beloved father: 'There's a way not to be broken that takes brokenness to find it.'" This short post by Cynthia Carbone Ward touches on grief, gratitude and love. She shines a spotlight on, "Those Winter Sundays," Robert Hayden's unforgettable poem and poignant tribute to his own father. [
"At the heart of attribution theory is the question of control, or what factors contribute to outcomes: internal factors within our control (often referred to as dispositional) and external factors (also called situational or contextual) that are outside our control. Generally speaking, we often succumb to "fundamental attribution error," which is a tendency to overemphasize the role of internal factors while minimizing the impact of situational ones. A striking example of this comes from Piff's Monopoly study. In the study, one participant gets significant advantages over another in a game of Monopoly based on a coin flip (twice as much money to start, twice as much money when they pass Go, and the ability to roll two dice vs. their opponents one). Despite this advantage, the winnerwho is always the person who won the coin flipconcludes that their win is the result of factors within their control, like purchasing Park Place, not the contextual coin flip. You can imagine how this plays out in real life..." [
