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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.”
This twentieth-anniversary full-color edition, with a new foreword by Desmond Tutu, is dedicated to Fukushima recovery in the face of world climate crises. All royalties will be donated to community resiliency across boundaries and antinuclear advocacy.
Anne Herbert is an American writer and past assistant editor of CoEvolution Quarterly, precursor to the Whole Earth Review. She is known for coining the phrase, "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty."
Margaret Paloma Pavel is an editor, performance artist, educator, fiber artist, and filmmaker. She is president of Earth House of Oakland, California, co-founder of Breakthrough Communities, and editor of the 2009 book with that title. She has worked in Japan over twenty-five years with the Web of Life network.
Mayumi Oda is a global activist and revered artist known as the Matisse of Japan. She has illustrated the books of Thich Nhat Hanh (Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet, and peace activist) and exhibited over fifty one-woman shows throughout the world.
- Sales Rank: #468816 in Books
- Published on: 2014-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 7.25" w x .50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 40 pages
Review
"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
From the Inside Flap
"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, Soweto, 2014
About the Author
Known to many as the ‘Matisse of Japan’, artist Mayumi Oda has done extensive work with female goddess imagery. Born to a Buddhist family in Japan in 1941, Mayumi studied fine art and traditional Japanese fabric dyeing. Mayumi has exhibited over 50 one-woman shows throughout the world. Her artwork is also part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT), Library of Congress (Washington, DC) and many others. She has authored books about her own creative life, including Goddesses and I Opened the The Gate Laughing, and Merciful Sea: 45 Years of Serigraphs. She has also illustrated several books for notable authors, including Thich Nhat Hanh’s popular Touching Peace and Present Moment Wonderful Moment.
In addition to her work as an artist, Mayumi Oda has spent many years of her life as a global activist? participating in anti-nuclear campaigns worldwide. She founded Plutonium Free Future in 1992. On behalf of her organization, Mayumi lectured and held workshops on Nuclear Patriarchy to Solar Communities at the United Nations NGO Forum and the Women of Vision Conference in Washington, DC. In 1999, she launched the WASH (World Atomic Safety Holiday) Campaign and is currently working to raise awareness among the citizens of Hawaii about the use of Depleted Uranium at the Pohakuloa military base. Her current activist work and the royalties beneficiary of this edition of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty will be community recovery work in Fukushima, Japan.
Feeling a deep connection with the mother earth, Mayumi has always enjoyed growing her own medicinal herbs and vegetables. In 2000, she started Ginger Hill, a farm and a retreat center on the Big Island of Hawaii. The artistically landscaped five-acre property is home to a number of workshops and retreats ranging from traditional Hawaiian Hula to medicinal cooking. Mayumi currently lives in Fukushima Japan and spends summers at Ginger Hill Farm. She travels worldwide, teaching workshops in creativity and self-realization.
Mayumi Oda's website is mayumioda.net. Mayumi’s activities and workshops can be found at her farm website gingerhillfarm.com; her blog is mayumioda.blogspot.com.
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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. She is a frequent national and international lecturer and keynote presenter on the theory of living systems and urban sustainability, and consults with individuals, communities, and organization on building healthy just and sustainable communities. She is co-founder of Breakthrough Communities which builds multi-racial leadership for sustainability and justice at regional, national, and global scales. She has worked in Japan for over 25 years with the Web of Life network on issues. Visiting faculty – University of California at Davis – Advisor to the Center for Regional Change. Performance artist, and filmmaker, using multi-media approaches to activate internal resources for leading change.
Dr. Pavel holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University as well as degrees in psychology and economics. She was previously core faculty, California Institute of Integral Studies; consultant to the Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative, Ford Foundation; a performance artist (Border Crossings); filmmaker (Sustainable Solutions, Voices From the Community); Monk, eco-spiritual Benedictine monastery; Peace Boat faculty – circled the earth;
Founded the Eco-Justice film series in the SF Bay Area with eco-activist, Kayaked Haida Guai (former Queen Charlotte Islands); weaver and fiber artist who started a collective in Maine (still going) and built a leadership center by hand on the coast of Maine, now succeeded by the urban Earth House Center in Oakland offering multi-racial leadership training.
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Anne Herbert (born 1952) is an American writer and a past assistant editor of CoEvolution Quarterly, a precursor to the Whole Earth Review. She is perhaps best known for being the person who coined the phrases, "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." and "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
An article in the December 1991 issue of Glamour about the history of the "random kindness" phrase described Herbert as "tall, blonde, and forty" and as living in Marin County, California.
Having known Anne Herbert in the 80s, Kevin Kelly wrote (in 2012) about her writing: “…it was telegraphic, lyrical, abbreviated, evocative, extremely personal and mystical. She wrote in short bursts. Like proverbs from a secret bible…It was not like any writing I had encountered… She was decades ahead of her time…”
Syndicated columnist Sally Schneider notes that Herbert's writing is "often like haiku (without the constraints): tiny meditations that caste a unique light on everyday things."
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wonderful
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This was a wonderful, spectacular book with beautiful illustrations and a wonderful message. with simplistic yet poetic words and a perfect theme, you cant go wrong with this book. Definitely one of the first books I will expose my children to. It depicts beauty, exposes the horrors of violence, and shows children how they can be leaders. Truly an amazing book.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A Classic, perfect gift for self or others
By Richard Page
Prophetic, hard hitting, incisive. Inspired by the life and work of the co-authors, I am no less enchanted by their book every time I read it. I cannot keep it on the shelf, it is my favorite book to share with people I want to reach from activists and opinion leaders to close friends and colleagues. Disarming in its beauty, devastating in its indictment of our current historical situation - buy this book if you want to Occupy your life, your community, our world with renewed vitality and conviction, a manifesto for our age.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A Transcendent Beauty is Born
By Owl
World-renown artist Mayumi Oda has illustrated the text by Margaret Pavel and Anne Herbert twice: in 1979 and in 2014. The 1979 edition is in red and black, the pages folding out like a scroll. If you can find this edition, now out of print, cherish it!
The 2014 edition of "Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty" was begun in 2011 when Mayumi was in Japan, working with a traditional scroll maker and is based on the 12th century scroll, "Birds and Animals Frolicking." My review describes the 2014 edition. Readers will need to be mindful of which edition they are purchasing.
The Story: Anne Herbert was the originator of the now widely quoted saying, "Practice Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty" inspiring the story by writer Margaret Paloma Pavel. The story describes how violence grows from senseless acts that begin to make the senseless whole of terrible wars, while harmony grows from senseless acts of kindness that can make a whole of environmental & human caring. Pavel emphasizes that we are powerful when we act: "the steps we take now decide what kind of earth that will be."
Mayumi Oda's vision brings to heart-breaking life the path where bunnies advance with rifles and and froglets are drenched in the deadly black rain that fell after Hiroshima. Her graceful art creates the path where cat, snake, monkey, rabbit, frogs, elephants, foxes, deer, and chipmunks feast, dance, and together grow the flowers, trees, and foods by which all are nourished.
The colors leap off these pages, the details deepen the meaning as the reader notices (for example), the snake joining the joyful dance is a rattlesnake and the skeleton dome behind the flames of senseless violence is that of Hiroshima. This 2014 edition is graced not only by Mayumi Oda's sure artistry but also a by a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
A beautiful gift for children, for those loving Mayumi Oda's art, and in thanks to those whose lives exemplify random acts of kindness. Most highly recommended.
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