It is perhaps a universal truth that by giving, one receives infinitely more in return. I am inspired by Cami Walker's book 29 Gifts, which was an uncommon prescription for Cami's diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis from an African medicine woman named Mbali Creazzo: Give away 29 gifts in 29 days. “By giving,” Mbali told Cami, “you are focusing on what you have to offer others, inviting more abundance into your life.” Cami is inspiring a global movement of generosity and challenging us to giving, whether it be in-kind gifts of money, food or services or simply of ourselves through a compliment, a smile or kind words. You can join this movement at http://www.29gifts.org/.I believe there may be a significance to the number 29 in the African medicine tradition and it has also been suggested that it may be the number of days it takes to make a practice a life-long habit. I found it interesting that there are exactly 29 days between Thanksgiving - a time of gratitude - and Christmas - a season of giving. Carrying this theme of gratitude is far healthier than the seven extra pounds of holiday feast, don't you think? Perhaps with a little practice we can all make philanthropy and generosity a constant life practice.
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nice reading, but not even more. read one time, and almost forget what it was about))
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