People
find inspiration in unlikely places.
I
found the inspiration for the creation of this Web site in
three places: a cinema next to a marina,
watching a movie called PAY IT FORWARD; a hillside
garden in the mountains near a village called Running
Springs; and my homeland, where I grew up immersed in the
Hawaiian values of Aloha and Mahalo.
What
is "Pay It Forward"?
It
is a star-studded movie with Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and
Haley Joel Osment. But it is far more than that. It
is a powerful love story about people, perfect strangers,
coming together in a way that empowers them all.
"Pay
it Forward" is a chain reaction of goodness.
You do a kindness that helps someone and tell him or her
not to pay it back, but to pay it forward to three other
people who, in turn, each pay it forward to three more.
As
the young boy in the movie describes it:
| “It's
doing something for somebody that they can’t do
for themselves.
You
just have to do that three times and the people
you help each do it three times, then it gets
bigger. It goes from three to nine to 27 and on
and on and on.”
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Graphic, courtesy of www.centralsingapore.org
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If
you wish to learn more about this movie, available as a
video rental, click here: Pay
It Forward: The Movie. I've written about my
personal experience with the movie elsewhere on the 'Net
and you wish to read it, that chronicle may be accessed here.
I'd
like to pay it forward by bringing this beautiful garden
to those who live too far away or are physically unable to
walk its paths.
I'd
like to pay it forward by bringing the accomplishments of two
special people, Mr. and Mrs. Bauer, to public awareness,
so others may be inspired to pursue their goals, one step
at a time. Or in the case of The Daffodil Garden,
one bulb at a time.
I'd
like to pay it forward by inspiring others who have
enjoyed The Daffodil Garden -- whether in person or via
this Web site -- to PAY IT FORWARD by letting others know
about this special place in the Southern California
mountains.
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Graphic,
courtesy of the
Roosevelt
Elementary School
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"Many
children who have paid it forward have had their
photos taken. These photos have been made into
posters that are throughout the halls. The caption
on the posters is "I've paid it forward, have
you?" The children are beaming in these photos
as they are very proud of how they have paid it
forward.
We
are a school of 730 students, grades kindergarten
through fifth grade. All students and staff are
involved in pay it forward activities."
~ Roosevelt
Elementary School
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Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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