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April 3, 2007

Change the World: Be Nice!

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 8:26 am

Reacquaint Yourself with Nice

Change the World!

Nice.

Let that word sit on your tongue. Think on it. Feel it. Go on have a nice feeling.

Niiiiice.

Remember when it meant something to say that things were nice?

Nice is a smile that shines from the eyes. It’s a cool, clear spring breeze. It’s nice holding hands, skipping along the beach, or walking with no particular place to go.

Nice is a day with a book, while waiting for a friend to arrive for an afternoon of wine and great conversation together. It’s the easy give and take between friends. It’s the soft silence, the knowing glance between friends who don’t need to talk.

Nice is the feeling that whatever we face when the sunrises, we know that we’ll be coming home at sundown.

Sometimes we forget to stop to see the nice everywhere. Say something nice. Do something nice. Do even more than that.

Make things a little better by being part of what’s nice in the world.

We can change the world — just like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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If you’re ready to change the world, send me your thoughts in a guest post. Feel free to take the gorgeous Change the World image up there that Sandy designed back to your blog. Or help yourself to this one.

Change the World!.

Email me about what you’re doing or what we might do. Let’s change the world one bit at a time together. Together it can’t take forever.





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16 Comments to “Change the World: Be Nice!”

  1. April 3rd, 2007 at 8:52 am
    Troy Worman said

    Let’s Be Nice. Pleasing. Agreeable. Delightful. Today. What a nice concept. What a nice thought! What a nice blog you have.

    Nice. We don’t see this word enough. Nice News. Wouldn’t that be nice? What a nice change!

    Nice noodlin’, Liz. You’ve brightened my day.

  2. April 3rd, 2007 at 8:54 am
    ME Strauss said

    Troy,
    How nice of you to say so! I’m feeling delighted and so good just to know that you got something nice from that post!

  3. April 3rd, 2007 at 10:34 am
    GP said

    niceness is as niceness does… I’m noticing it’s contagious

    Will check in :) later this eve
    GP in Montana hoping to have nice ride on her nice horse (what side of the corral did she wake up on?

  4. April 3rd, 2007 at 10:39 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi GP,
    You are a nice one of the very best sort and so are those four-legged friends of yours. :)

  5. April 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
    Char said

    Nice sunny day. Nice open comment night to look forward to. Nice blogging friends. Nice, new attitude.

    Thank you for reminding me of the nice things in my life today, Liz!

  6. April 3rd, 2007 at 12:18 pm
    Debbie Call said

    Oh Liz, I have to play devil’s advocate here. I love what happens when people are “nice,” and consider myself a person who is of that description. But I still find that word makes me yawn. We’ve all used it as a catch-all word of sorts, a substitute for stronger, descriptive words. I’m as guilty as anyone there.

    So let me say that you are beyond nice, Liz. You are unique, courageous, innovative and a tremendous collaborator. And that’s just for starts!

  7. April 3rd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Char!
    Nice things to say. Nice way to say them. Nice going Char!

  8. April 3rd, 2007 at 12:28 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Aw Deb,
    Don’tcha think that’s because people have just forgotten how nice nice really is all by itself. Nice is a nice one. :)

    Thank you for all of the those strong words that you chose. They feel so nice.

    I think you are one sprited, thinking, imaginative devil’s advocate, who can take on the cause of bring back the true meaning of the word nice. [big grin :) ]

  9. April 3rd, 2007 at 2:04 pm
    Mike said

    I like nice. It’s the small, warm kitten of positive adjectives. ;-)

  10. April 3rd, 2007 at 2:13 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Mike!
    I like nice. If I stop to think about what it means. It reminds me of all of the nice things of childhood. :)

  11. April 3rd, 2007 at 2:31 pm
    Mike said

    Liz,

    I think we sometimes undervalue the importance of nice. It’s an important catalyst of gratitude on a daily basis.

    Mike

  12. April 3rd, 2007 at 3:56 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Mike!
    We sure can undervalue and underestimate nice. Some of the smartest people I know are. . . nice. And gratitude is something I’m learning has a real place in the “good life.” Wine and cheese, and bread and . . . nice. :)

  13. April 3rd, 2007 at 7:42 pm
    Mike said

    Liz,

    Gratitude has a central place in the good life. There’s lots of buzz about “The Secret”, but the preceding sentence is a better one.

    Mike

    P.S. I am very grateful to count you among my friends!

  14. April 3rd, 2007 at 8:16 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Mike,
    thank you.

    All gifts go both ways. This is no exception. :)

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