3 Things to Inspire Your Weekend: #62

Quote of the day: 

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion. -Krista Tippett 

Credit: TheStar.Com

A Toronto police officer Niran Jeyanesan who was called to a report of shoplifting at a Wall mart ended up buying a shirt and tie for an 18 year-old alleged shoplifter after learning that the young man needed the items for an upcoming job interview. The officer said that he wanted to 'show kindness to someone who had fallen on hard times', after hearing the background story of how the teen ended up shoplifting. After taking the teen to the station he went back to the store and paid for the items. Constable Jeyanesan said he wasn't rewarding the behavior of a criminal, but only used his discretion to determine that the case did not merit criminal charges.

Credit: Associated Press

A 91-year-old Thai woman Kimlun Jinakul, who spent more than 10 years studying for a college degree finally earned it and received her diploma from her country's King. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in human and family development at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University which is government-run just outside Bangkok. She traveled over 450 miles to attend the ceremony. The University has courses catering for the elderly and this year alone had 199 students who are over 60 years old.

As seen on Arch Daily, Aperture in the Woods
Architects: Takero Shimazaki Architecture + Charlie Luxton
Location: Buckinghamshire, UK

Brief: A conversion of a derelict 1960s modernist house working as much as possible to maximize the existing structure

Theme:  Glass entrance and apertures. Retention of original brickwork and painted black to make the house recede into the shadows of the surrounding woodlands.

Photograph: Edmund Sumner

Peace. Love. Light* 



Current Listen: Eric Dolphy - Hat and Beard