The Wee Peeple Newsletter 

October 2010            Issue 44

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CUDDLEY PUMPKINS for HALLOWEEN!

The Dollmaker in her shoppe having fun playing PUMPKIN TOWN with partner Joyce

and Joyce's Fabulous Felted Pumpkins

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is UNDERWAY!

Renaissance Women are loving

The New Lady Pins are HOT HOT HOT.

Breakfast arrived unexpectedly one morning!

wow! Thanks M'Lord and M'Lady!

The Dollmaker has no idea what kind of cake it was,

but it was amazing. and still warm!

  Contributing to Humanity

Contributing to humanity is not about being the best. It is about being good, about valuing and honoring all those things that we hold dear on this good earth. Contributing to humanity is about comprehending the power of kindness and the strength of compassion. It is about caring for the uncaring and loving the unlovable. It is learning that forgiveness is a gift that we give ourselves and that true love is unconditional. It is about balancing the virtues that you have on the inside with what you display on the outside. Contributing to humanity in the context of forever is about finding a way to bloom as a rose among the thorns.

- Dr. Bill Path

Blog to continue at http://momentsofforever.wordpress.com

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On the art and science of universal compassion 

by Rob Bresney

On many of the mornings when I wake up in my soft bed, surrounded by 

the perks of my temperature-controlled home and ready to enjoy another 

mysteriously interesting day, I am visited by the urge to murmur a prayer 

of gratitude like "Thank you a billion and one times, Whoever or Whatever 

You are that gave me this lavish riot of beauty." I am flooded with 

ecstatic appreciation as I taste the honey mingle with the sour flesh of 

the organic grapefruit, or when my lover cracks a quirky joke right before 

she kisses me twice, once on each eyelid, or when my daughter emails me 

the enigmatic new poem she wrote.

But what brings me even sharper pangs of personal elation, what evokes 

an even more exuberant longing to celebrate, are those moments when I 

deeply feel the successes that are unfolding for human beings far away 

from me -- successes like the irrevocable decline of global poverty and 

child mortality.

And I know many people who nurture a similar aim. Our numbers are 

growing. Before now, there has never before been a time when so many 

people have actively cultivated a capacity for transcendental empathy. 

Before now, there has never before been a time when millions and millions 

of us have taken concrete action

to improve the well-being of those we've never met.

We are currently living in the most compassionate moment

in the history of civilization.

In recent decades {this movement} has grown exponentially,

 becoming a global crusade 

to improve social justice, economic conditions, human rights,

 and environmental health.

We take it for granted, but it is a surprising and unprecedented 

development.

By Hawken's estimates, there are well over a million organizations 

engaged in the effort, which thrives without centralized leadership, 

charismatic front men, or a fixed ideology.

Because of its grass-roots ubiquity, it is largely invisible to the mass media and underestimated by politicians.

Excerpted from *PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*

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See you soon!

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the 

patient while nature cures the disease," 

- French philosopher Voltaire. 

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