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Caring for ill, elderly has reward — a longer life

Boomers sandwiched between growing children and ailing aging parents often worry that the stress from all that caregiving might shave years off their lives. But it turns out that the opposite may be true — the nurturing they give may be repaid by a longer lifespan, a study shows.

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I don't believe in santa claus. I am not even sure if I believe that a child was born under a shining star.

Miracles often come from as close as next door
Source: forestcitysummit.com

Frances Freeburg believes there are angels everywhere, and more often than not, they are disguised as those living closest to us.

Why is my fiance pretending that we are 'just friends'?

Q. My best friend told me this yesterday: "We are in relationship for more than a year now and we have already planned to get married. But I was taken back, when he introduced me to his friends as his 'good friend'.

Love Quotables- Chapter 15
Source: flyguychronicles.com

If my words prove incapable of articulating my heart's appreciation for you, then let the words of others inspire a new sense of understanding of just how much you mean to me. Here is Volume 15 of Love Quotables. Enjoy.

The Doctor Is Within
Source: The New York Times

"Dream — nothing!" is one of the many things I've heard the 14th Dalai Lama say to large audiences that seem to startle the unprepared.

Caregiver Survival Tips
Source: beliefnet.com

a must for those involved in care giving at any level

Oh Yeah? Well, I'm in Really Good Shape for a Guy YOUR Age Too! Hell, I Didn't Die - I Just Celebrated a Birthday is All!

Couple weeks back, some dude at the gym, guy in his early forties tells me, "You're in really good shape for a guy your age." "Oh yeah?" I shoot back!" "Well I'm in really good shape for a guy YOUR age too!"

My Life With My Grandparents-Part 1

So that everyone can understand a little better about why I was so close to my grandparents, I am going to write about what life was like growing up.

Cat teaches puppies how to catch mice
Source: ananova.com

Excerpt: A cat in China has adopted two orphaned puppies - and is trying to teach them how to catch mice. The female cat - named Tom - nurses the puppies and washes them with her tongue, reports the Yaxin Network.

I'm not going to croak yet: Brullie the bullfrog in world first to have a steel pin fitted to broken leg
Source: the Mail online

Excerpt: Giant bullfrog Brullie has hopped into history as the first of his kind to be fitted with a steel pin to repair a broken leg.

Cheapskate brothers exchange same birthday card for 36 years
Source: Gazette.com

Excerpt: Darryl and Dan Culberson were cheapskates before it was cool. And they can prove it. The two brothers have been exchanging the same birthday card since 1973.

The Good News Is: "That I Have So Many Wonderful Friends"

Forsyth, Georgia - Good News Wednesday "That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end."Francis Quarles Friends are like the walls of a house.

Is The Octuplets Home Safe?
Source: CBS News

Excerpt: How the mother of octuplets, Nadya Suleman, is going to take care of them and their six siblings is one of the questions that Lara Spencer, the host of "The Insider" recently asked when she sat down with Nadia Suleman and her mother, Angela Suleman.

uuworld.org : a meditation from Mark Belitini
Source: UU World

"Do not think you can take away each other's troubles, but try to be with each other in them. Remember that you are part, not all, great, but not by far the greatest, small, precious brief breaths in the great whirlwind of creation."

Season of Nonviolence 2009 | Day Four : Caring

Day 4 -- CARING (Feb. 2) According to Peter McWilliams, "Nonviolence toward the self is caring for oneself. It is what the Greeks call reverence for the self." Real caring is not just what we say, but what we do.

For Those Who Suffer | Caring

Why should each one of us care about the welfare of others, have compassion for those who suffer, be concerned for humanity? * Because caring, compassion and concern are requirements for peace. * Because every person in the world is part of one family, the family of man.

A Revolution in Me -- A Kindness Story
Source: Help Others

So, now, when I cross paths with another, I ask myself the question, am I meeting this person with a closed heart that feels bad and has the weakest will to live, or am I greeting another with a warm heart that is pounding with an openness to love life?

Santas Hearing About Bad Economy From Kids
Source: Denver News, Denver, Colorado News, Weather, and Sports - KMGH Denver's Channel 7

DENVER -- You know the economy is getting bad when, instead of toys, kids are asking Santa for food. Rich Lopez has been playing Santa in Boulder for eight years.

GET HAPPY! - 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy
Source: AlterNet.org

Excerpt: In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and e …

Choosing Love This Holiday Season
Source: UU World

In this season of contrasts, I am reminded of the words of the Rev. Rebecca Parker: "Your gifts, whatever you discover them to be, can be used to bless or curse the world."

Dog thrown from moving car recovering
Source: ABC Action News

---Click the play button on the video window to the see the story--- TAMPA, FL -- A malnourished pitbull, rescued after being thrown from a vehicle, is now on her way to recovery thanks to the kindness of others.

Leo the dog saves kittens from burning fire
Source: YouTube

Leo the dog wouldn't leave a burning house without his kittens. He almost gave his life for them. At the end of the video, it's really touching to see his relief and joy when he's united with his little loved ones. He showers them in kisses.

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