Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty

by Desmond Tutu (Author), Mayumi Oda (Author), Anne Herbert (Author), Desmond Tutu (Author), Anne Herbert (Author), Margaret Paloma Pavel (Author), Mayumi Oda (Author)

New
Picture Book
2017
$13.75

A Haiku-like text with the message that each person can become an agent of goodness and beauty With beautifully crafted words and exuberant watercolor illustrations, Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty offers a poetic and empowering message for world peace. Recognizing we are right on the edge of destroying ourselves, this modern allegory inspires taking joyful steps to end violence. It expands upon the idea that we are all in the circle together, and presents a timeless parable for readers of all ages. The Haiku-like text delivers a call to make a new earth grow beneath our feet. In the playful style of 12th century Japanese picture scrolls, Mayumi Oda's art depicts humans as animals who lose their way when their leaders become confused and drawn to violence. It is up to each individual - the frog who plants a thriving garden, the cat who supports an elderly neighbor as they walk - to create a better world through simple acts of kindness. The message of this book is the sweet realization that each person can become an agent of goodness and beauty.This twentieth-anniversary, full-color edition, with a new foreword by venerable peacemaker Desmond Tutu, is dedicated to world peace and recovery in the face of world climate crises. All royalties will be donated to community resiliency across boundaries and antinuclear advocacy.

Synopsis

A Haiku-like text with the message that each person can become an agent of goodness and beauty With beautifully crafted words and exuberant watercolor illustrations, Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty offers a poetic and empowering message for world peace. Recognizing we are right on the edge of destroying ourselves, this modern allegory inspires taking joyful steps to end violence. It expands upon the idea that we are all in the circle together, and presents a timeless parable for readers of all ages. The Haiku-like text delivers a call to make a new earth grow beneath our feet. In the playful style of 12th century Japanese picture scrolls, Mayumi Oda's art depicts humans as animals who lose their way when their leaders become confused and drawn to violence. It is up to each individual - the frog who plants a thriving garden, the cat who supports an elderly neighbor as they walk - to create a better world through simple acts of kindness. The message of this book is the sweet realization that each person can become an agent of goodness and beauty.This twentieth-anniversary, full-color edition, with a new foreword by venerable peacemaker Desmond Tutu, is dedicated to world peace and recovery in the face of world climate crises. All royalties will be donated to community resiliency across boundaries and antinuclear advocacy.

$13.75

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More Information

Format: Picture Book
Pages: 40
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: New Village Press
Published: 03 Jan 2017
ISBN 10: 161332023X
ISBN 13: 9781613320235

Media Reviews

-We can indeed transform the world, and we are each called to take part in this sacred work. Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty offers this simple and powerful message of wisdom and hope. Wherever you are, you can create beauty. Moment by moment, you can create joy. Instant by instant, you can offer kindness.- --Desmond Mpilo Tutu

-This exquisite book offers guidance to us all.- --Alice Walker
-This is the real article, brought to us by streetwise bodhisattva, Anne Herbert, who authored the phrase you see on walls and bumperstickers, and Margaret Pavel, word wizard, systems thinker and global therapist, along with Dharma artist Mayumi Oda, whose wondrous frogs remind us that this time we awaken with all beings. Good things come in small packages. About as long as the Heart Sutra, it distills all we need to know right now in order to let our lives count in building a sustainable world.- --Joanna Macy
-Wow! This book is amazing. The message is so important and relevant! I believe that we all have the power! I love the way this book sends this message of goodness to children. Children are the future and this book conveys HOPE! It is rich in language, thought provoking and positive.- --Marla Conn, Common Core Curriculum Standards assessment specialist

We can indeed transform the world, and we are each called to take part in this sacred work. Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty offers this simple and powerful message of wisdom and hope. Wherever you are, you can create beauty. Moment by moment, you can create joy. Instant by instant, you can offer kindness. --Desmond Mpilo Tutu

This exquisite book offers guidance to us all. --Alice Walker

This is the real article, brought to us by streetwise bodhisattva, Anne Herbert, who authored the phrase you see on walls and bumperstickers, and Margaret Pavel, word wizard, systems thinker and global therapist, along with Dharma artist Mayumi Oda, whose wondrous frogs remind us that this time we awaken with all beings. Good things come in small packages. About as long as the Heart Sutra, it distills all we need to know right now in order to let our lives count in building a sustainable world. --Joanna Macy

Wow! This book is amazing. The message is so important and relevant! I believe that we all have the power! I love the way this book sends this message of goodness to children. Children are the future and this book conveys HOPE! It is rich in language, thought provoking and positive. --Marla Conn, Common Core Curriculum Standards assessment specialist

Author Bio

Anne Herbert is an American writer and a past assistant editor of CoEvolution Quarterly, a precursor to the Whole Earth Review. Dr. M. Paloma Pavel is president of Earth House of Oakland, California. She is editor of Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis (MIT Press, 2009), and co-edits Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Books for MIT Press. Mayumi Oda is an artist and global activist participating in anti-nuclear campaigns worldwide.