Greetings!  Hope this newsletter finds you and your family doing great!  I am sure you are getting into swing of things with kids back to school and the hot summer days finally coming to an end.

August has been another great month!  From our second Community Healing Day event, we managed to donate another $200 to local Mobile Loaves and Fishes.  Again, although it was not a lot of money, it was something we did together to make a difference for the community, and we hope that you will be able to join us for the next one on September 25th.  Our target for September is $1000!

On August 21st, I became a grandma for the first time to a beautiful baby girl, Berlin.  See below for a picture of us.

Talking from my own experience of having had a lot of pain in my life, I would like to share one of the ways to create peace within.  Whenever I find that other people's actions annoy me, I give myself full attention to that feeling arising within me, acknowledging how I feel and empathizing with myself.  This action helps creating space within myself and I soon find that that unpleasant feeling subsides and I am able to see and choose the right action.  The more I did it, I found that it became easier to emphasize with other's "wrong" actions instead of allowing it to trigger the pain within myself.  It works well for me!

I would also like to share with you the latest insights & wisdoms that our founder Ilchi Lee makes available to all of us through his website, along with the Earth Citizen Movement and One Dollar Project he has initiated.