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4 Rockland & Orange Counties SUBSCRIPTIONS
During the recent October snowstorm, three strangers in a moving truck stopped to help me get my car out of a ditch. They literally lifted my car back onto the road. And I always assumed movers just moved boxes and furniture! While the help of strangers is certainly heartening, it is our friends and family that we always can rely on for support. Although my husband could not move my car, he walked about two miles from our house to help. During that time, my friend Ben
called. When I told him that my daughter, her friend and I were stuck in a ditch in my car, he immediately asked for our location so that he could come rescue us with his four-wheel drive vehicle. Because there were so many other stranded cars he couldn’t quite get to us, although he was able to get fairly close. Once my husband arrived at my car, he was able to walk Jadyn and her friend to Ben’s car and get them safely home. This month’s feature article, Do Good, Feel Good, is all about how helping others leads to better health and greater happiness (see page 20). Research has shown that generosity and volunteering have benefits such as boosting the immune system and reducing chronic pain so find out how to increase your generosity quotient and be healthier. Feeling happier certainly is one benefit of helping others. And since
happiness has a tendency to radiate out to others, it becomes even more powerful. Local counselor Tom Kelley explains how being around positive, happy people makes you better-off (see page 27). Erin Lehn Floresca illustrates how sound can be healing and because we are interconnected, our own healing positively affects all of humanity (see page 18). In Inspired Community, Elaine Torrance-Gingrich reminds us how important it is to make time to play as she shares her personal story and how it led her to make fun a priority every day (see page 31). Leo and his friends have fun every day and also are a great example of
friends who look out for one another. What makes them unique is that they are a bear, a lion and a tiger (see page 32). In Interspecies Friendships, we learn how many animals look beyond their differences and find happiness in their unlikely friendships. In Wise Words, astronaut Edgar Mitchell explores the concept of interconnectedness and how we each are part of a whole living system. While we all cannot see the world exactly as he did while returning to Earth from the Moon, we can all see in our everyday lives how we are connected. From the strangers stopping to help get my car out of a ditch to being spiritually enriched by witnessing the curiosity of a child (see page 28) to sharing fun party foods with friends (see page 35), together we make up the ‘web of life’. On our own and as part of a community, we all have the opportunity to
enhance our lives and the lives of others to uplift humanity. With Joy,
Deborah Turner, Publisher
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