admin | 04 Jul, 2010 07:22 | Category: General Comments | Views: 1312

Friends, It's nice and warm now, and more people are outside enjoying the warmer weather.  This is the time when you can make your neighborhood, or wherever you may spend your time, into a better place to live.  Each one of the people you meet is hungry for a little love and attention.  Each one has faced many difficulties and heartbreaks in life, and is still battling on.  [More...]

admin | 11 Jan, 2010 19:56 | Category: General Comments | Views: 1661

Wow!  It's cold today!  I don't think the sun came up until 8:00.  So cold it got stuck!  Where is global warming when you need it?   However a friend sent me this Powerpoint slideshow.    If we are tempted to feel too cold, it might warm our hearts to watch it again.  If you can't view a powerpoint slide show, you [More...]

admin | 04 Jan, 2010 08:00 | Category: General Comments | Views: 1572

We would like to wish YOU a happy new year 2010!  All those who have joined our activities, and even all those who have come to this website are a part of what is happening here.  We are building a better world of love and understanding, slowly, surely, touching hearts one at a time.  I hope you enjoy your part in it as much as we do ours!   With love and prayers for [More...]

admin | 24 Dec, 2009 09:02 | Categories: General Comments, Christmas Stories | Views: 1702

A Christmas greeting to all of our dear friends [More...]

admin | 21 Dec, 2009 17:39 | Category: Christmas Stories | Views: 1553

Here is another story about Santa:  This one is from Tom Carlin.  Tom Carlin is a radio personality in Utah.  He tells this story at Christmastime.       My Christmas Miracle happened many years ago in Richmond, Virginia, where I had played Santa Claus for about eight years. In fact, the particular year of my miracle I was awarded first prize as one of the ten [More...]

admin | 19 Dec, 2009 16:54 | Category: Christmas Stories | Views: 1686

Here is a story I like from one of Santa's helpers!  Hope you enjoy it!    Share the love!   An Elf's Tale  By Tyree Dillingham  It was six o'clock at the mall, and I was as exhausted as an elf on Christmas Eve. In fact, I was an elf and it was Christmas Eve.  (Read the story here!) [More...]

admin | 10 Dec, 2009 21:15 | Category: Christmas Stories | Comments : 1 | Views: 1507

Here is a skeptic physicist's eye view of Santa!  It's fun!  But it shows that the "real Santa" must be something different then "The Night Before Christmas" poem.  Maybe not for the romantics among us, but it is interesting!  Check it out [More...]

admin | 09 Dec, 2009 07:22 | Category: Christmas Stories | Views: 588

Here are some good stories about Santa Claus.  These are not my own stories, so I am offering links to some other sites.   A Christmas Story A true story by Jay Frankston There's nothing so beautiful as a child's dream of Santa Claus. I know, I often had that dream. But I was Jewish and we didn't celebrate Christmas. It was everyone else's [More...]

admin | 03 Dec, 2009 21:16 | Category: Thought provoking | Views: 523

(From Martin:)   I want to invite you to visit my new blog.  It is dealing with the deeper issues of life, love, death, decisions, etc.  It's just getting started (as of this writing), but if you are interested in such things, please take a look, and if you want to be heard, leave a comment!  The blog address is:  [More...]

admin | 12 Sep, 2009 04:51 | Category: General Comments | Views: 555

I recently made an interesting discovery.  I guess it's not really much of a discovery, as obviously many people before me knew it, but I found it interesting. I saw an article that named the "King of Jazz" as Bhumipol Adulyadej.  I recognized the name, having lived in Thailand, and I was surprised to see that he was considered the King of Jazz.  The [More...]

admin | 03 Sep, 2009 09:47 | Category: General Comments | Views: 581

Recently someone drew my attention to the project called "Playing for Change:  Songs Around the World".  I don't tend to get overly enthusiastic about most modern music, but I found that this collection is not only good music, but it portrays hope, faith, and a very international outlook.  I recommend it to you!   You can view a sample on Youtube [More...]

admin | 26 Jun, 2009 08:24 | Category: Thought provoking | Views: 502

I read an article today that I thought worth sharing.  A young American woman doing (apparently) volunteer work in Colombia had her Yahoo E-mail account hijacked (seems like it can really happen).  In a situation where many of us would be wishing violent retribution on the perpetrator, in actuality thinking only of the inconvenience to our own lives, this woman decided instead to interact personally [More...]

martin g. | 26 Feb, 2009 09:30 | Category: Movie Reactions | Views: 577

Thinking about the movie afterwards, I was thinking about "What if nobody were to 'pay it forward'?"  It dawned on me that our lives are what we make them.  That is, what we are, and the lives we have are determined by our decisions, our thoughts, our actions.  And the next thing I thought of is "What type of life do you want to have?  What type of person do you want [More...]

mayumi | 26 Feb, 2009 09:14 | Category: Movie Reactions | Views: 654

インターナショナル・ハンドシェイク‘０９年２月のアクティビティーより     [More...]

martin g. | 25 Feb, 2009 19:36 | Category: General Comments | Views: 683

Are you having trouble keeping track of time?  Try this!  It might help!  It's a product of Japanese ingenuity and Polish craftsmansip by a man named Yugo [More...]

martin g. | 19 Feb, 2009 10:02 | Category: General Comments | Comments : 2 | Views: 740

Last weekend my friend Bruce, whom I haven't seen for 28 years, came to visit me.  He has been in Japan since the second week of January, staying in Yokohama. He works for the US Navy, working for a few months at Yokosuka.  We had a great time catching up, and I was surprised how close we could be, after such a long time with very little communication. Since he has been in [More...]