This week’s story comes from a good samaritan in Las Vegas who gives their possessions to those who are in need.  “I give away what I don’t use to those who are in need. I see a person walking in the pouring rain without an umbrella, I give them mine. I offered my jacket and tent to a homeless person. I cover homeless people sleeping without a blanket in winter with a warm quilt. It’s not the case that I hold onto possessions thinking I might need it later. I give away my own blessings without hesitation.” Tell us a story of your act of kindness and get full albums…

This week’s story is from Iris in San Jose, California. She and her family wrote thank-you notes and left tips for the hotel staff who helped make their vacation possible, acknowledging their hard work.  “Our family just came back from our year-end trip. We spent six nights in four hotels during the trip, and were very grateful to hotel staff who still worked very hard during the holiday season. We left tips and hand-written thank you notes in the hotel room when we checked out, . . . in the tipping box of the hotel dining room, and tipped the hotel staff who made breakfast for us. Sharing the earth…

The first featured story of the year comes from someone in the USA, who helped make their sister’s birthday dream possible by making clay items for everyone to paint.  “My sister wanted to celebrate her birthday painting ceramics with her friends, but after realizing that it might be too expensive for everyone, I came up with an idea. I told her to ask her friends what they wanted to paint, and over the course of two weeks, I made the items they wanted out of air-dry clay. I went and bought more paint brushes, just to make sure they had enough to share. Her friends came over to our house…

The final featured story this year is “It feels good to give,” from Anonymous in Bridgewater, USA, where our storyteller lends a snowblower to neighbors after a snowfall. “During the snowstorm in February, we had about two feet of snow over one night. We have a powerful snow blower and it only took us forty minutes to clean our driveway. After we were done, we let three neighbors use our snow blower to clean their driveway. It feels good to help someone.” Tell us your act of kindness at Good Karma Music and get to choose a complimentary music album.

This week’s story is “Cards of Kindness” by K L from London, who worked with their kids to make personalized Christmas cards to cheer others up. “. . . My kids created Christmas cards and gave gifts to the mail carriers, who throughout this whole pandemic have been serving the community, delivering packages and parcels while we stay safe at home. The kids were excited to give the gifts and cards. The recipients were touched by the gesture, and said what made them really happy was the personalised cards from the kids. . . . We then decided to make more Christmas cards with good well-wishes and sent them to…

This week’s story comes from Anhnhat who is translating a repentance text into English so that the kids in the youth group can understand. “I am a leader in the Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Association. Every week, we chant our repentance in the Vietnamese language. The American-born kids have a hard time understanding the repentance because it is not in English. I have combined many partial translations of our repentance into one translation and also translated some parts of it. So far, I have finished about 80%. I will finish the rest very soon.” Tell us your act of kindness at Good Karma Music and get to choose a complimentary music…

This week’s story comes from Susan in Hercules, USA, who taught her first grade students how to be mindful of their behavior. “I teach first graders at a public elementary school. . . Sometimes, they can’t stop talking. To help them, I taught them to ‘Sit like a bell.’ Bells do not talk. So they learn to sit and listen (and take turns to talk). At recess, when lining up, they learn to ‘Stand like a tree,’ so no one is swinging their lunch bags and hitting anyone. When they walk down to the lunchroom, they learn to ‘Walk like the wind’ and not run for they might fall. Once…

This week’s featured story comes from Connie N. in Singapore, who had conversations with fellow patients at the hospital before and after her surgery, and found it helped calm herself and others down from being worried. “When I was in the hospital for my open heart surgery, before and after the surgery, I tried to speak to other patients next to me because they looked worried. We encouraged each other at the same time and after I spoke to them, I felt they were more relieved and for myself, I felt that the pain was not so painful anymore.” Tell us your act of kindness at Good Karma Music and…

This week’s story comes from Cary in Shanghai, China who helped replace the light bulbs that went out for the safety of the local elderly folks.  “My family lives on the fifth floor of a six-storey building. There are many elderly living there. One day I found that the lights in the third and fifth floor had gone out. These two lights are in the public corridor. It was dangerous for the elderly to go downstairs that evening. So I asked my parents for help and replaced them at once. After solving this problem, I am very glad to see these lights shining at night. It’s useful for the elderly…

This week’s story comes from some students at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas! A & P helped set up for an event, as well as install hundreds of plants.  “We helped set up the chairs, tents, and banner for Honoring Elders Day last weekend. Some of us volunteers also installed 480 plants over the weekend as well as a part of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas’ new retention pond/sewage system. Only 3500 plants left to go! Very hard work, but worth every bead of sweat!” Tell us how you helped others at Good Karma Music and get to choose a complimentary music album.