CONNECTIONS

Are we more similar than different?

Read Matt Harding's Connecting to a Global Tribe after watching the video clip below. Read and be inspired by Matt's essay and at the same time note how he starts, the personal experiences he describes, his conclusion that connects to a deeper idea. Identify what he values.
Respond in your blog to his writing and the video.

The painting is by Marc Chagall, The Juggler. I chose it partly because of the whimsical figure who to me appears to be dancing on a swirling world. The colours seems soft and muted but the feeling joyous.

Both Matt Harding and the Compliment Guys make me smile and restore a belief in the basic goodness of people. Read the article outlining the medical benefits of smiling.

And for a little more inspiration... read the poem below:

Stream of Life

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day

runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet and in fact won Asia's first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He first started writing poetry at the age of eight!! It is this poem that becomes the inspiration and lyrics for the music in Matt Harding's video!