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Gooooodd Morninnggg SuperForest!
SuperForest, meet John.
John Forté became one of my favourite musicians after seeing him play live a year or so ago. John has a message, and a story. Simply put: John gets it.
In the 1990′s he enjoyed huge success producing and co-writing with the group known as the Fugees, winning a Grammy with them. In 1997 the band split, and John pursued his solo career. He produced his debut album, and it was a flop. John lost it. He blamed the world, his producers, his friends, but never himself. His life continued in this fashion until 2000, when he was convicted of possession of liquid cocaine, and convicted to a minimum of 14 years in prison. In 2008 former U.S. President George Bush pardoned him, freeing John from prison. He became a different man. Here, I’ll let him tell you how.
He is a SuperForester. He is a man of love. He went to the bottom and rose from his own ashes with love and compassion. John gets it. Please explore his story further by visiting his site by clicking here. He also has recently released an AMAZING EP titled, “From Brooklyn to Russia with Love.” This EP is the beginning of his next journey, which is talking him to Russia to explore himself and share his message. The EP opens and closes with his own dialogue on what has led him to Russia, and what his life means to him. Get it. Listen to it. Learn. This man is the real deal, this man is a SuperForest Hero.
Love & Aloha John.
Love & Aloha Superforest.
~SFM
For his whole story watch this TED video:
SuperForest Heroes are people who exhibit amazing gifts and talents, and are set on changing the world. We will highlight who THEY ARE here.
Goooodd Morrnninggg SuperForest!
I want to introduce to you Jane Elliot. She is a SuperForest Hero. After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 she decided she needed to begin really teaching her third grade students about discriminations, and more importantly humanity. She showed them what it felt like to be a minority, and evaluated the affects discrimination had on her students socially and academically. This experiment has become one of the most famous in social psychology. Be warned that her methods can definitely be describe as intense, but her outcomes cannot be disputed. She has changed the lives of many, and continuous to do so. Instead of me telling you about her, I want to show you her. PBS’s Frontline did a special on her in 1985. The whole program runs 46 minutes, but if you are short on time be sure to watch parts ONE & TWO at least. These two parts focus on her original experiment, and the others will show you the long term effect of her work, and how she has started bringing her teachings to adults. (Note: There are some words used in the video that are now socially inappropriate in our culture.)
So here is Part 1!
For the Parts 2 through 5 click on the link below!
Jane Elliot’s Frontline: A Class Divided
Jane Elliot is a community and family builder, and she is truly a SuperForest Hero. She brings people together in their humanity by making them realise they all can be hurt equally, and it just is not worth it. LOVE is much more powerful! Her teachings are invaluable. Thank you Jane,
Mathew & Team SuperForest
Heyo SuperForest!
The story speaks directly to what power lies behind the words of our own Humanifesto! Not much needs to be said beyond THIS IS AWESOME! A total win coming your way SuperForest, so get prepared!
SuperForester Julio
Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.
But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn.
He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.
“He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you go,’” Diaz says.
As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”
The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, “like what’s going on here?” Diaz says. “He asked me, ‘Why are you doing this?’”
Diaz replied: “If you’re willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me … hey, you’re more than welcome.
“You know, I just felt maybe he really needs help,” Diaz says.
Diaz says he and the teen went into the diner and sat in a booth.
“The manager comes by, the dishwashers come by, the waiters come by to say hi,” Diaz says. “The kid was like, ‘You know everybody here. Do you own this place?’”
“No, I just eat here a lot,” Diaz says he told the teen. “He says, ‘But you’re even nice to the dishwasher.’”
Diaz replied, “Well, haven’t you been taught you should be nice to everybody?”
“Yea, but I didn’t think people actually behaved that way,” the teen said.
Diaz asked him what he wanted out of life. “He just had almost a sad face,” Diaz says.
The teen couldn’t answer Diaz — or he didn’t want to.
When the bill arrived, Diaz told the teen, “Look, I guess you’re going to have to pay for this bill ’cause you have my money and I can’t pay for this. So if you give me my wallet back, I’ll gladly treat you.”
The teen “didn’t even think about it” and returned the wallet, Diaz says. “I gave him $20 … I figure maybe it’ll help him. I don’t know.”
Diaz says he asked for something in return — the teen’s knife — “and he gave it to me.”
Afterward, when Diaz told his mother what happened, she said, “You’re the type of kid that if someone asked you for the time, you gave them your watch.”
“I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It’s as simple as it gets in this complicated world.”
Produced for Morning Edition by Michael Garofalo.
(Via.)
Good Morning, SuperForest!
It’s Friday! And after a hectic week of studies and late nights writing an epic project proposal, I thought it’d be best to start the day off with someone wildly inspiring: Trevor Field.
Trevor Field, was an advertising executive who had lived a considerably good life. Upon retiring, he felt it was time to give back. Namely, Field wanted to tackle the global issue of access to clean drinking water (whoa, that’s a big one!), and the manner in which he would do this is wildly innovative and heart warming. As described on PBS’s Frontline article,
He noticed that in many rural villages around the eastern Cape, the burden of collecting water fell mainly to the women and girls of the household. Each morning, he’d see them set off to the nearest borehole to collect water. They used leaky and often contaminated hand-pumps to collect the water, then they carried it back through the bush in buckets weighing 40 pounds. It was exhausting and time-consuming work.
“The amount of time these women are burning up collecting water, they could be at home looking after their kids, teaching their kids, being loving mothers,” Field tells Costello. He knew there had to be a better solution.
Field then teamed up with an inventor and came up with the “play pump” — a children’s merry-go-round that pumps clean, safe drinking water from a deep borehole every time the children start to spin. Soup to nuts, the whole operation takes a few hours to install and costs around $7,000. Field’s idea proved so inventive, so cost-efficient and so much fun for the kids that World Bank recognized it as one of the best new grassroots ideas.
Amazing. Simply amazing. Here is a beautiful video that tells us more about this canny entrepreneur.
Love to all,
C
(via)
So now we know the name of the quick thinking and steel tempered man who so gently set US Airways Flight 1549 down in the Hudson, saving the lives of all hands on board.
Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger III!
Man, how he did it, I do not know.
Here is the video we shot yesterday:
(At around 1:28 you can see the tail of the plane.)
I left the video unedited so you can better get a feel for the scene on the streets.
Standing on the shore of the Hudson, watching all these little rescue craft tend to the struggling airliner like dolphins keeping a humpback afloat, and then turning around and seeing all of the people lined up at windows and on rooftoops, seeing just what I was seeing, the realization of the sheer scale of the event we were all sharing in was pretty heavy.
Captain Chesley, I hope you fly every plane I ever get on.
You don’t need us to tell you, but you are a SuperForest Hero.
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