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    We Can Be Kind: Healing Our World One Kindness at a Time
    We Can Be Kind: Healing Our World One Kindness at a Time
    We Can Be Kind: Healing Our World One Kindness at a Time
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    We Can Be Kind: Healing Our World One Kindness at a Time

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    One Kindness at a Time

    Be kind: The world is changing at lightening speed, and meaningful connections are increasingly elusive. David Friedman, creator of the hit song "We Can Be Kind" offers a powerful reminder of how we need to treat each other, from children to family to coworkers as well as strangers, neighbors and those across the political aisle. Through story, meditation and suggestions of kindness, Friedman encourages us to create new ways of building community. Through the practice of kindness, we become most fully connected, alive, and integrated.

    Practicing The Golden Rule: The past few years have shown us what it is like to live in a less caring world. David Friedman’s advocacy for treating each other better and applying the Golden Rule is an idea whose time has come. His deeply thoughtful handbook for the heart brings it all home with simple suggestions of how to be kinder and why it is more important than ever now.

    Compassion and empathy: We Can Be Kind is a course in compassion from a beloved composer for Disney Films and Broadway, Daily Show regular, and Unity Church spiritual leader. The book provides:

    • Lessons on the value of kindness
    • Inspiring meditations
    • Daily affirmations
    • Essential truths
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMango
    Release dateOct 27, 2017
    ISBN9781633536760
    We Can Be Kind: Healing Our World One Kindness at a Time
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    David Friedman

    David Friedman served as the United States Ambassador to Israel from 2017 to 2021. Under his leadership, the United States made unprecedented diplomatic advances, including moving its Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights and, of course, brokering the Abraham Accords. For his efforts, Friedman was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and received the National Security Medal. He lives with his wife Tammy in Jerusalem.

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      We Can Be Kind - David Friedman

      WE

      CAN

      BE

      KIND

      Healing Our World

      One Kindness at a Time

      by David Friedman

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      Copyright © 2017 David Friedman

      Published by Mango Publishing Group, a division of Mango Media Inc.

      Cover Design: Elina Diaz

      Layout & Design: Morgane Leoni

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2017955298

      Eric Rosswood

      We Can Be Kind: Healing Our World One Kindness at a Time

      ISBN: (paperback) 978-1-63353-675-3, (ebook) 978-1-63353-676-0

      BISAC - SEL021000, SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational

                     - OCC019000 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth

      Printed in the United States of America

      Based on the song

      We Can Be Kind by David Friedman

      Kind: adjective,

      1. of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as aperson

      2. having, showing, or proceeding frombenevolence

      3. indulgent, considerate, or helpful; humane (often followed byto)

      4. mild, gentle

      PREFACE

      The chapter headings in this book are taken directly from my song We Can Be Kind, first recorded by Nancy LaMott. Before you read this book, please take a moment to download Nancy’s recording of the song by going to http://bit.ly/2eD28vd. It’s free, as Kindness always is and should be.

      Since the purpose of this book is to spread the word about Kindness to the entire world, please feel free to share this URL and your downloaded recording on Facebook, Twitter, with your friends, with your mailing lists, and anywhere you can. And while you’re at it, if you enjoy the book, share that too.

      Together we can Heal Our World, One Kindness at a Time.

      David Friedman

      Contents

      Foreword

      by Lucie Arnaz

      Introduction

      We Can Be Kind

      CHAPTER 1

      So Many Things We Can’t Control

      Giving Up Control

      Guilt and Shame

      A Power Greater Than Ourselves

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      CHAPTER 2

      So Many Hurts That Happen Every Day

      A Small Incident Inspires a Universal Song

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      CHAPTER 3

      So Many Heartaches That Pierce the Soul

      Taking the Risk of Loving after Loss

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      CHAPTER 4

      So Much Pain That Won’t Ever Go Away

      Good Morning Heartache

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      CHAPTER 5

      How Do We Make It Better?

      It Only Takes One Word

      Don’t Fix It, Acknowledge It

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      CHAPTER 6

      How Do We Make It Through?

      One Moment at a Time

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      CHAPTER 7

      What Can We Do When There’s Nothing We Can Do?

      Not Good, Not Bad

      A Broken Dish is an Opportunity for Kindness

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      CHAPTER 8

      We Can Be Kind

      Negotiating Rule #1—Be Kind

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      CHAPTER 9

      We Can Take Care of Each Other

      Panic Attack

      Heaven or Hell

      Kamikaze Drive-by Prayer

      Secret Santa

      If You Can Do Something for Someone Else, Do It

      Wishing Someone You Can’t Stand Well

      Being Happy For Someone Else’s Success

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      CHAPTER 10

      We Can Remember That Deep Down Inside

      We All Need The Same Thing

      Election Politics

      Uniting for a Common Cause

      The Truth About Christmas

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      CHAPTER 11

      And Maybe We’ll Find, If We Are There For Each Other,

      That Together We’ll Weather Whatever Tomorrow May Bring

      Funerals, Terminal Illnesses, and Hopeless Situations

      Laughing with a Dying Friend

      The Gift of Trouble

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      CHAPTER 12

      Nobody Really Wants to Fight,

      Nobody Really Wants to Go to War

      Camp Common Bond

      Silent Night

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      CHAPTER 13

      Everyone Wants to Make Things Right,

      So What Are We Always Fighting For?

      Taking a Visible Stand Against Prejudice

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      CHAPTER 14

      Does Nobody Want to See It?

      Does Nobody Understand?

      Don’t Assume

      That Was Acting

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      CHAPTER 15

      The Power to Heal Is Right Here in Our Hand

      Let There Be Peace on Earth

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      CHAPTER 16

      And It’s Not Enough to Talk

      About It, Not Enough to Sing a Song

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      CHAPTER 17

      We Must Walk the Walk About It

      Practicing What You Preach

      If You Spot It, You Got It!

      Sleep-Out

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      CHAPTER 18

      You and I, Do or Die, We’ve Got To Try to Get Along

      Kindness Is the Reason I’m Here Today

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      CHAPTER 19

      And Maybe We’ll Find True Peace of Mind

      I’m Destitute

      Forgiveness

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      CHAPTER 20

      If We Always Remember,

      We Can Be Kind

      We Can Be Kind to Ourselves

      Practicing Kindness in the World

      Epilogue

      Authors bio

      David Friedman

      Nancy LaMott

      Foreword

      by Lucie Arnaz

      I woke up early this morning determined to write the foreword to this book, but still unsure where to start. As I was pouring a cup of coffee, I heard a thud on our kitchen plate glass window. It happens a lot this time of day in the desert; the reflection must tell the birds that the landscape continues in this direction. Then they get a big surprise. I went ahead and made breakfast before sitting down to write and, while at the table finishing my omelet, looked to the window on my left and saw a large patch of smashed feathers. Out the window, on the patio, still on the ground from almost forty-five minutes ago, was a little grey-brown sparrow…sitting upright, perfectly still. I told my husband, Larry, what had happened earlier and that it must have been sitting there this whole time trying to recover from the shock.

      You don’t know me, but I think I must have been an animal or bird in my last life—because I can’t see things like that without wanting to help. We decided to give it some water. I filled a tiny dish and crept out slowly onto the patio, fully expecting the sparrow to scare and take off. It didn’t. So, I snuck over, got down on the pavement, and put the little bowl in front of her. (It looked like a female.) She allowed me to do this, to just be there and gently stroke her head and back feathers, many of which had been left on the window. As I lay there with her, I kept thinking, What else should I or can I do? Nothing. All I can do is help her get through this and protect her from the large hawks that swoop in from time to time to prey on the injured. I sat up with my knees to my chest and decided to wait until she could fly away, and I started to softly sing: So many things we can’t control. So many hurts that happen every day. So many heartaches that pierce the soul… Just then, the bird jumped up onto my knee! She just

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