Tag Archives: Caring

My Recipe For Life

Posted on May 11, 2012 by russtowne

I believe that most people feel that life is very complex and complicated. That is understandable. There is so much information, regulation, conflicting needs and priorities, entities telling and selling what we need and should do, partisanship and rancor, choices, … Continue reading →

Posted in Forgiveness, Friendship, Generosity, Gratitude, Growth/Learning, Inspiring, LIfe Lessons, Praise, Random Thoughts, Relationship Lessons Learned | Tagged attention, care, Caring, coach, comfort, confidence, contentment, energy, friends, fulfillment, grateful, gratitude, grow, guide, Happiness, Inner Peace, joy, keeping it simple, kindness, learn, Life, Love, passion, peace, people, recipe, recipe for life, share, shine, simplicity, slow learner, support, teach, time, truly matter, Zen | 3 Comments

Terror and Kindness on Interstate 5

Posted on May 2, 2012 by russtowne

It was the middle of the night on one of those long and lonely stretches of Interstate 5 between distant small farming communities. My mom and her girlfriend were taking me and 4 of their other children to Disneyland. All … Continue reading →

Posted in Courage, Generosity, LIfe Lessons, Making the World a Better Place, Praise, True Stories I've Written | Tagged 18-wheeler, 18-wheelers, big beast, blaring, blaring horns, brains, bucking wildly, careened, Caring, children, dazed, Disneyland, eighteen-wheelers, eightenn-wheeler, end-over-end, facing the wrong way, families, Family, fast-motion, flat tires, flats, flipped, freeway, glaring lights, gyrating, headlights, headlights coming at us, help, horns, Interestate 5, kids, kind, kindness, mechanic, mom, Mother, mothers, never-ending, nightmare, on-coming lights, on-coming trucks, oncoming traffic, shockwave, shop, siblings, spinning, straddling both lanes, SUV, terror, Travel-All, trembling nerves, truck, trucker, trucks, wrong way on the freeway, zig-zag, zig-zagging | Leave a comment

I P O Y

Posted on April 11, 2012 by russtowne

I occassionally write the letters “I P O Y” on the bottom of emails and other written communicationss to one of my sons. The reason for doing so takes a little explaining but involves Fred Rogers of “Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood” … Continue reading →

Posted in Forgiveness, Friendship, Gratitude, Healing, Inspiring, LIfe Lessons, Optimism, Random Thoughts, Vids & Stories That Touched Me | Tagged anxieties, anxiety, Audiobook, author, better world, Caring, children, childrens', compassionate, confidence, confident, death, empathetic, fear, Fred Rogers, Friendship, gentle, I P O Y, IPOY, kids, kind, letters, Life, loving, making the world a better place, Mister Roger's, Mr Roger's Neighborhood, Mr. Rogers' Neigborhood, safe, safe space, self-worth, show, son, sons, television, their world, troubling, TV, world, writer | Leave a comment

“When Grown-Ups Lie”

Posted on April 1, 2012 by russtowne

One of my songwriting collaborators and I are writing a song that we hope will inspire children who are victims of abuse to speak painful truths to caring people who will listen and take action to help protect them. To … Continue reading →

Posted in Courage, Healing, LIfe Lessons, Song Lyrics I've Written or Co-Written, Song Updates, Songs I've Written or Co-Written, Songwriting Adventure | Tagged adults, beautiful ight, Caring, child abuse, educate, harmful, have been hding, hurt, inspire, inspire children, intimidation, lies, powerless, shadows, song, Songwriting, songwriting collaborator, survivors, torment, tormentors, victims, when grown-ups lie, worthless | 1 Comment

Hope For The Human Race Comes From An Unlikely Place

Posted on March 3, 2012 by russtowne

Awhile back I saw an amazing video of a dog who ran out onto a busy highway to to attempt to pull from danger another dog that had just been hit by a car. As cars whizzed by barely mising … Continue reading →

Posted in Dogs & Other Wonderful Creatures, Random Thoughts, Vids & Stories That Touched Me | Tagged abandon, abandoned, apathy, bully, bullying, care, Caring, cars, color, compassion, creature, creatures, cruelty, danger, deprivation, deprive, divide, divisiveness, Dog, dogs, eyes, grow, hate, hatred, help, Hero, Heroic, highway, hit, indifferencee, learn, loneliness, lonely, Love, neglect, one, oneness, ostracize, ostracized, political, politics, race, same, sameness, save, saved, shape of eyes, similar, similarities, skin, skin color, slavery, species, traffic, unite, video, war, wounds | Leave a comment

I Have Much to Learn From My Dog

Posted on February 29, 2012 by russtowne

A friend forwarded these and they seem right on to me. My dog Duke has been modeling these for me for six years and I still struggle to consistently do them. What can I say? I’m a slow learner. When … Continue reading →

Posted in Dogs & Other Wonderful Creatures, Humor, Random Thoughts, Relationship Lessons Learned | Tagged care, Caring, coming home, compassion, Dog, Friend, friends, Friendship, fun, grass, greet, greeting, heat, home, hot, ill, illness, learner, Love, loyal, Loyalty, nuzzle, sun, tail, teach, warm, warmth, wisdom | Leave a comment

Add Extra To Ordinary

Posted on February 25, 2012 by russtowne

I was headed out the door to meet with a new investment Client when the headline for an ad in an open magazine caught my eye: “Add Extra To Ordinary” What an extraordinary tag line! (It was for Bertoli Olive … Continue reading →

Posted in Quotes I Love, Random Thoughts | Tagged Caring, compassion, evening, extra, Friend, friends, Friendship, help, Helping, kindness, Life, Love, night, ordinary, thoughtfulness, understanding | Leave a comment

A Real-Life Quiet Hero: Dr. Tim

Posted on February 24, 2012 by russtowne

I just finished reading about a real-life quiet hero named Dr. Tim from one of my favorite sites, http://www.HeroicStories.org I recommend that you check out both that story and that site. Better yet, introduce yourself to Joyce Schowalter who keeps … Continue reading →

Posted in Vids & Stories That Touched Me | Tagged bills, Caring, Dr., health, Hero, Heroes, Heroic, kindness, Money, payment, payments, self-employed | Leave a comment

Quiet Heroes

Posted on February 24, 2012 by russtowne

A friend from my childhood recently mentioned the movie “To Kill A Mockingbird”. It is one of my all-time favorite stories. That got me to thinking again about my favorite type of people: Quiet Heroes. They are the ones who … Continue reading →

Posted in Random Thoughts, Vids & Stories That Touched Me | Tagged Atticus, book, books, bravery, Caring, child, childhood, courage, fear, Friend, friends, Friendship, Hero, Heroes, Heroic, honor, honoring, humble, humility, kind, kindness, Life, Love, Mockingbird, movie, movies, obstacles, quiet, smile, stories, story, understand, understanding, world | Leave a comment

Lifting the Veils

Posted on January 29, 2012 by russtowne

I believe I’m at my best and my world is greatly improved when I’m able to remove or see through (if only temporarily) the many layers of judgment, bias, pain, fear, shame, guilt, and so much more that that I … Continue reading →