Random acts of kindness, life's poetry and sources of inspiration ...

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well this beautiful thread started as one thing but since someone recently already invited you all to list those little thigns that make you happy i thought of something else i would love to read and share...

I was thinking actually i would love to hear stories about random acts of kindness you may have witnessed, or... you know ? those little poetic moments suspended in time that just "happen" and make you go WOW.

The other day i saw this old man, old and elegant man crooked and obviously suffering arthritis... a kid sat next to him on a bench with his mother and suddenly he started doing silly dance moves and winking at the kid to make the kid smile... i caught a milisecond of pain passing on his face, but really mainly it was pure joy, he was a kid himself again... thigns like that make me so happy it is nothing and it is everything...

everyday magic story anyone ?

shine on
cass





Hello beautiful people

Dear me! Things change so fast how many hoppers are we now ?
I was just thinking how i would love to hear what everyone loves and what makes you happy, little and big things in everyday life or on special occasions...
I hope you want to share some of your beauty and inspiration here

So ... let me start

I love melted goat cheese on toast

I love to firedance in the night and rain

I love to walk barefoot on various surfaces

I love to receive such a good massage that i am blissed out for hours and hours

I love it when my friends andclients feel like that about my treatment

I love when someone pushes my buttons unwillingly and i learn from them and afterwards manage to walk up to them and thank them

I love to watch movies with my leaninghousemates Flynt and Wench and joke about "bald, twelve year old" guys

I loved receiving the little prince in greek from shibaki two days ago (thanks tracy )

I love my Hop old friends and look forward to meeting some more soon when i come back to Europe, where the history comes from

I loved waking up at 5 am in Queensland and seeing a family of wild kangooroos (spel?) just a couple of hundred meters from me...

I love the buskers in the mall of melbourne

I love when someone runs their fingers in my hair and kisses my forehead

how about you ?

shine on
Cass

PS: to you all wonderful mods, I know i posted something like that a couple of years ago but i wanted to start something new here, i am not sure if you will let this be or cancel the thread but either way it is a good opportunity to tell you how much i love you my friends, Malcolm, Pele, Flash, Dom, Charles, Josh I miss you heaps and you are in my heart.

I love the Lingering smell of kerosene on my clothes after spinning several litres of fuel with my friends.

what a lovely thread. i'll jump on in a free-associative way:

i love...

hugs

the weekly fire-spins with my poi-friends in the shakespeare garden in golden gate park

my friends of both the spinning and non-spinning variety

hiking through redwoods & talking to the trees

watching the hot shirtless boys playing with their staves at hippie hill on warm sunny days

drinking beer with friends at 'the wall' and people watching in the castro district of san francisco, center of the gay universe

chillin with empty wine bottles all over the place & some good herb & a house full of the laughter of my near and dear

a really good meal shared with friends

a perfectly mixed vodka martini

spinning poi

nailing a new move for the first time

public sex

when someone rubs my freshly shaved scalp

watching the fog roll over the hills of san francisco at dusk

doing gender-f***k drag

shopping for shoes

performing a random act of kindness for a stranger

Public Sex?

i love the feeling you get when i sit with that special someone in my arms when it feels like we're the only two people there, despite being sat on a bench in a busy park

i love the soda bread and cheese that the wonderful Miss Firepoise cooks

i love the feeling you get when you meet a HoPper for the first time you've been speaking to for months on HoP for a good while

i love the feeling you get when you make eye contact with someone as they walk past and you keep eye contact until it'd only be possible if you both turned around

i loved the picturesque scene a few hundred yards from the edge of the circle around the campfire at falmouth

i love watching the sun set over the sea at the beach in Narin in Ireland

it's true that if you actually appreciate things then the best things in life are free

i love sharing an icecream sundae with somebody special

A very similar thread was started in social 2 weeks ago titled "what makes you happy". I think this one has very much the same feel as that one, so maybe they should be combined?

If I knew how to link to that thread here, I would but I can't so I'll just bump that one for you.

Watching someone smile when they dance.

The bright flames softly illuminating a slowly spinning figure

the gentle glow of glowsticks as the thousands of bodies jump up and down rhythmically in time to the beat.

Sunrises and sunsets

My friends.

EDIT- Shine on! How come two very cool girls from different forums I frequent use this phrase erratically. I love it either way.

Waking up to a random hopper

hugs

the smell of firewater when you just light up

night spins

the thought of going to england to meet everyone

glowstick poi

lying on the grass watching people spin at the gardens

watching someone light up for the very first time (the smiling and the dodging and the relief you dont light yourself on fire)

fridays

i love
being snuggled up in bed with someone special especially when its bucking down rain outside and not having to go anywhere or do anything all day

energy play

the moment of transition from confusion to understanding

having deep conversations with people who are able to participate on the same level

having deep conversations with people who are able to participate on hte same level and disagree

solving problems other people cant

watching the change in someones face as they have a moment of realisation

boarding a plane

staying in a 5 star hotel

spending time with beautiful people

sitting in a hammock watching the sky

being at the beach and playing in the waves

but most of all i love choice

i love.... all the special people in my life... seeing them smile, knowing that they are happy

hugs

seeing beauty in things that other people dont see

the moon and stars

sunsets

watching and listening to the sea

looking out the window on a really stormy day with a log fire burning and everything glowing orange

remembering special moments you thought you had forgotten

days when you find the motivation to be positive and not go backwards

poi

being surrounded my music walking down the street and smiling so much people wonder why but they cant hear the words


the fact that there are many more things i could list here

trying to make people smile...click here......

Fireworks are the best thing in the world, ever! They can bring me to tears (of joy) and I don't know why. Especially if there's music choreographed for them.



Sitting around with friends drinking red wine laughing.

When people play with my hair.

Really, really intense dark but bright sunsets.

Stars and the full moon

Listening to people ramble about their philosophies on everything. I love hearing everyone's different views.

I love hearing people sing when they belt out ballads with all the strength and might you could ever sing with. And it moves everyone who witnesses it.

Cuddles

Daffodils make me happy too.

psycho lemming, i think you messed up the link. it's sending me to the university of aukland student webmail service. this is perhapse usefully, but not particularly funny, unless you have a quite strange sense of humor.

I'm going to go with my previous topper on a similar topic.

I love taking a deep breath unhindered by pain and stiffness. It's a simple pleasure that I spent most of my adult life unable to enjoy.

I love doing Durbs!

ok well... i had not done a search (and what key words to use ?? )
but i must say thanks so much for all you beautiful peopel shared on this thread and even more of the beautiful thread what makes you happy

NYC, you aint dreaming baby, but that is about it for another while I love you buddy

TO whichever moderator who will close this thread consider yourself incredibly hugged and to the other mods who will come too late to close it ... feel my embrace too

KAelgotrice, i got my signature shine on from that beautiful quote of mandela which by the way is ont of the most inspiring things i ever read

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." 1994 Inaugural Speech - Nelson Mandela

SHine on beautiful people
much love and respect
Cassandra

oh and i am with sparkey on that one... i thought i missed the joke cause i have not been online for a while or cause i am french or a combinationf of both

*shines a glowstick on NYC and gives him a hug

Doesn't count! I KNOW!

being alive | cherishing life | cherishing others | friendships | my wife to be | familly | to see every day that i make some one smile just once | to not regret a thing in life | to not have enemies.



and to one day again see all those that i love with all of my heart... even if i have to go all the way to paris io amore signorina cassandra *puntare verso

I love lovely people.

They make the world go all like this

EDIT EDIT EDIT

well this beautiful thread started as one thing but since someone recently already invited you all to list those little thigns that make you happy i thought of something else i would love to read and share...

I was thinking actually i would love to hear stories about random acts of kindness you may have witnessed, or... you know ? those little poetic moments suspended in time that just "happen" and make you go WOW.

The other day i saw this old man, old and elegant man crooked and obviously suffering arthritis... a kid sat next to him on a bench with his mother and suddenly he started doing silly dance moves and winking at the kid to make the kid smile... i caught a milisecond of pain passing on his face, but really mainly it was pure joy, he was a kid himself again... thigns like that make me so happy it is nothing and it is everything...

everyday magic story anyone ?

shine on
cass

PS: PSycho lemming what is not supposed to happen ???? what was the link supposed to be ????

PPS : NYC, I would give the world for a hug from you and your girl actually... missing you heaps, will call you soooooon

The first few notes of a song that carries a damn fine memory.

I've never encountered some huge kind act but I did have a Mother and daughter (about 12) approach me and say

'my daughter pointed you out to me as you were walking and told me how nice you looked, so we thought we'd come and tell you. You look really nice'

I was so uplifted. They went out of their way in a busy mall to come and tell me i looked nice.

Aww, that's lovely!