"Change doesn't come from thinking you have to raise millions
of dollars to make it happen. It comes from making it happen,
no matter how much, or how little, you already have."
Correct. Eloquently put, that was the way I was looking at it too
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote:
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> > thanks [:x]
> > As the film opens, our unidentified homeless man sits in a store-
> > front with his stereotypical cardboard sign stereotypically
> > begging for whatever change he can accumulate. Before long, he
> > heads off with change in hand to the neighbourhood country store.
> > "Heading to the liquor section," You might think.
> > An emotional punch, without being sappy or overly melodramatic
> > weaves an intertwining story of multiple fates, giving us only
> > glimpses of the lives involved, but these glimpses are all we
> > need to feel the heart put into creating this film.
> > Reminiscent of Kurt Kuenne's award-winning Validation,
> > The Student's Companion to Social Policy by Pete Alcock,
> > Margaret May, Sharon Wright
> > http://tinyurl.com/cta865q
> > In particular, people who have the mindset for social change are
> > deterred by limitations, and they embrace the belief that small
> > actions do matter.It can be so incredibly simple. A hug. A kind
> > word. A small, meaningful gift. A coin. An unexpected act of
> > mercy.
>
> I reposted this short film widely, and have been amazed
> at the response it's gotten. For me it just nailed the
> whole compassion and boddhicitta and "making a difference"
> thang.
>
> It's an extraordinary film in my opinion because first we
> are set up (by playing to stereotypes) to think the worst
> of and expect the worst from the main character. Many
> people in the audience probably took one look at him and
> reacted the way the store clerk did, with a snarled lip
> and a subtle "moving away," as if to have as little contact
> with him as possible. I would bet that a certain percentage
> of viewers never got beyond the first part of that scene,
> expecting him to buy booze. Their loss.
>
> There are two things I love about it. The first is that,
> as hinted at in the title, he spends *every cent* of what
> he's been given, all of it to help other people. He doesn't
> keep even a penny for himself. But the next day, the cycle
> starts again with the same penny he gave away returning
> to him. What goes around comes around.
>
> The other thing is that this film celebrates "small ges-
> tures" and the performance of small acts of kindness and
> compassion as a way of affecting change. I just can't tell
> you how tired I am of hypocrites who talk, talk, talk about
> how much they want to create world peace or get everybody
> enlightened or achieve some Big Lofty Goal, and then consis-
> tently treat the actual people they meet on the street every
> day like shit. I thought this guy was as much of a hero as
> I've ever seen onscreen, and I have nothing but praise for
> Sharon Wright for writing, producing, and directing the film.
>
> Change doesn't come from thinking you have to raise millions
> of dollars to make it happen. It comes from making it happen,
> no matter how much, or how little, you already have.
>
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall <thomas.pall@> wrote:
> > >
> >
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