Small U.S. businesses thrive with Ethiopian woman’s help. Read the story on CNN here.

Also, Obama recognizes Hero - Follow up story

Pixar grants girl’s dying wish to see ‘Up’

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” Henrik Ibsen

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Let not Kindness and fidelity leave you. Bind them around your neck. Then will you win favor and good esteem before God and man! Proverbs:Chapter 3 verses 3&4 New American Bible

Check out this awesome video, Turn up your volume. This video is very true and very powerful. Please view it until the end.

Old friendships are like old songs.
They can either fit in with our
changing lifestyle and thoughts,
or be placed upon a shelf…
save for a few meaningful lyrics.

Lorraine Jara 1989

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” - Robert Frost (1875 - 1963)

If you go to this web site, www.letssaythanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can’t pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services.

How amazing it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!! This is a great site. Please send a card. It is free and it only takes a second.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these? Whether you are for or against the war, our guys and gals over there need to know we are behind them.

Listen to “People Got to Be Free” by The Rascals

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. So, who was Saint Valentine and how did he become associated with this ancient rite? Find out below by reading the history of St. Valentine’s Day. Celebrate love, celebrate kindness, celebrate life and count your blessings! Write your sorrows in the sand and carve your blessings in stone. Share your all with all and make this world a better place one person at a time!

• Links:
• The history of Valentine’s Day on history.com
• Read about Valentine’s Day on Wikipedia
• Listen to There’s A Kind Of Hush by Herman’s Hermits

See a full size version of this postcard. This post card is an original antique dated 1910. Postage was 10 cents. I collect antique post cards. Lorraine

Auld Lang Syne - Kenny G

John Lennon/Happy Christmas on YouTube

I wish Tiffiny and her family a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Please check out Tiffiny’s previous posting’s here on BK2HK.

Promoting Peace and Helping The Less Fortunate

Try To Do Something For Someone Else On Your Birthday

As CHRISTmas soon approaches let your hearts be filled with JOY (Jesus-Others-Yourself). Not so filled with worry over getting that perfect toy. Remember the celebration of our Lord the infants birth. And keep CHRIST in CHRISTmas and your soul will fill with mirth. So as CHRISTmas soon approaches, remember this one thing… to always keep praise on your lips for Christ our Savior and King!!!

Please remember to honor all of our Veterans and hang up your American flag. We love our Vets!

Check out one of our previous posts honoring our service men and women.

Welcome 2008! BK2HK would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy, healthy and blessed new year! Remember, in order to change the world for the better we have to begin in our own little corner of it. Beginning first with our own change of attitude for the better, sharing it with family, friends and acquaintances and then spreading out from there. Please do not become discouraged if met with sour attitudes at times. These folks need your kindness more than you will ever know. One small act of kindness in word or deed each day, every day. It can be done. Good luck and keep the kindness going!

“Thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become character, character is everything, it’s never too late to live happily ever after.”

Watch the “May You Be Blessed” video if you haven’t seen it already.