None of us are immune from adversity. At some point, we’ll be desperate for a moment of human kindness and connection; we’ll need someone who’d be willing to lend a helping hand without expecting anything in return. But for that to happen, we need a world that believes in kindness as the single most … Read more

If you look at the front page of any mainstream newspaper, you will be overwhelmed with the amount of ugliness, violence, and tragedy in the world. But that’s not the whole truth. In Random Acts of Kindness, writer and journalist Rachel Greco insists that there’s equal amount of kindness and good, and much of it … Read more

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like,” Will Rogers famously said. Indeed, in our relentless pursuit of buying and accumulation, we have become the pack-horses of our possessions. Things are in the saddle and run our lives. Instead of bringing relief, every … Read more

Berthold Auerbach once wrote that music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. This is what happens when you listen to “The Hidden Valley,” a masterpiece by a Norwegian composer Peder B. Helland. His YouTube channel, counting more than nine million followers at the time of this writing, started with a simple … Read more