by Adeena Schlussel on behalf of Daniel Lubetzky
This New York Times article proves the KIND philosophy that strangers can be friends if they break modern society’s barriers; in this case, all it takes is talking to people who share your commute.
I just re-read an essay I wrote (as therapy, I guess) back on September 11, 2001 and a couple days after, trying to capture the thoughts and feelings of New Yorkers after the World Trade Center terrorist attack.
It is worth remembering what the city and its people went through.
It is worth honoring the heroes and the fallen.
And it is worth reflecting on how we can deny a victory to the terrorists, back then and today, not just by apprehending them, but also by the lives we lead and how we lead them.
The original essay, Etiquette and Resilience in the Face of Calamity, is in the PeaceWorks Foods archives. A copy is pasted below.
In addition to being in Us Weekly, Kelly’s love of KIND was featured in OK! Magazine, In Touch and Life & Style… 
Paparazzi snapped Kelly snacking on a KIND bar and toting a KIND Healthy Snacks grocery bag! She was featured in USMagazine.com and X17online.com. 
Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust presents:
Tuesday, November 17, 7 P.M.
Making Money and Doing Good
Moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times
Daniel Lubetzky, Kind Inc. and PeaceWorks Foundation/OneVoice Movement; Nancy Lublin, Dress For Success and Do Something; and Barry Nalebuff, Honest Tea
The news has been marked in recent years by the moral and literal downfall of prominent businesses. Meet a new generation of Jewish entrepreneurs who are leading a shift in corporate culture and philanthropy by integrating their business plans with social activism.
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I have been hearing many cliches about how the New York City Real Estate market at the end of the day will not adjust as much as the rest of the real estate market because of scarcity. But the economist in me doesn’t buy it. Yes, as supply is somewhat limited, real estate in NYC should reasonably appreciate more solidly than in the expanses of San Antonio, TX, where land is plenty. But the crazy run-up in prices over the last decade+ cannot be reconciled solely by scarcity, and as bubbles burst in all other asset categories, so to they will (and have started to) in Manhattan real estate.
It is surprising that so few resources are available online to track historical trends in real estate – per square foot and/or per median and average home prices, for NYC and otherwise.
It almost seems as if real estate brokers want to focus prospects purely on 5-year timelines, and that is all they publish and share.
So here are the few sites I found useful, in case others find them handy:
An older man walked in to a subway car, offering to sing some songs…
When he realized a young guy was already performing in that car…
But rather than compete, they extemporaneously started jamming together… …quite nicely, far nicer than what we had been hearing before…
And the whole subway car started paying attention and enjoying it – I even skipped my stop and kept riding for a few more, as there was real magic in the air…and far more contributions from the riders, who knew they were witnessing something special.
On the subway this morning, a homeless man sat in a corner quietly scribbling notes on a newspaper, with all his belongings next to him.
No one else sat in that section of the subway.
The rest of the subway car was reasonably full. But there was an invisible line that kept newcomers from seating near the homeless man.
Was it out of respect that people gave him his space, recognizing this was his temporary home?
Or was it out of fear, repulsion or alienation?
How would you have approached it?
Sent from my iPhone – pardon typos
His face is so calm
Full of love and tranquility
How blessed we are
to have warm shelter and peace for him.
How hard and how painful
for the millions upon millions
who lack peace, or water or heat,
who may not have bread or milk to give their children.
How hard and how painful
for the parents who’d lose a baby to a missile
or the babies who’d lose a parent to a bomb
and the nations who’d lose their innocence along the way.
That juxtaposition gives me anxiety:
the peaceful nap of our little baby
against the horrors and hatred brewing around our world,
whether a few blocks up, or 7,000 miles away.
For my baby’s peace cannot be guaranteed
his Spring cannot be counted upon
so long as babies anywhere else in our globe
are suffering, being targeted or killed.
It is for our baby here
that peace must be waged there.
Here is another good article on the misaligned incentives that came about when Wall Street went public.