today, as i celebrate my maternal grandmother’s 130th birthday, i re-member last year her birthday coincided with the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the holy day of Lhabab Duchen, a festival of re-joy-sing in all acts of kindness for on this day Buddha descended from heaven to liberate his Mother and repay her many acts of kindness….

join me this moment in the caravan of re-joy-sing of my grandmother who was a scattergood and joy-ner by performing acts of compassion joyously and scattering all of the acts of kindness and goodness you bestow and all the acts that have been bestowed upon you…

today is a day to throw kindness around like confetti because we always need it, especially the unkind who need it the most…

so, yes, let us breathe in deeply through the stone people, our ancestors, right down through the deep heart of the earth coming home ready to choose love over power, compassion over fear and construction over destruction…