Worldwide Renaissance
of the Heart Month
and
Worldwide Renaissance
of the Heart Tea
Remember to give your heart a renaissance!
Description
The
annual internationally celebrated
Renaissance of the Heart Month is in February.
It is dedicated to compassionately thinking with your heart
as well as your intellect.
For more information, please contact
Renaissance of the Heart Month founder and spokesperson,
Inspirational Writer and Speaker Deb Kulkkula
at 978-343-4009 or
RenaissanceLady@RenaissanceoftheHeart.com.
Thank you for your interest.
Remember to give your heart a renaissance!
Worldwide
Renaissance of the Heart Tea
The
World Wide Renaissance of the Heart Tea
is dedicated
to heartfelt thinking.
It will take place on the first Saturday in February
at 12:00 noon all around the world.
Everyone is invited to enjoy tea
with friends and family and chat about
their own heartfelt thinking and heart's desires.
Please note that the World Wide Renaissance of the Heart Tea
is sometimes known as the Heartfelt Thinking Tea.
For more information. please contact
Deb at 978-343-4009 or at
RenaissanceLady@RenaissanceoftheHeart.com.
Thank you.
Remember to give your heart a renaissance!
Annual
Heartfelt Thinking Contest
for Adults
As
you know,
Renaissance of the Heart Month
is all about you following your heart as well as your head.
So, we want adults (over 18 years old)
to write about your own heartfelt experiences
and enter them in our annual contest.
Send in a 200 words or less
journal entry, poem, short story or anecdote to
RenaissanceLady@RenaissanceoftheHeart.com
by February 14th, 6:00 PM EST.
All entries must be contained in the body of the email.
Entries must include
the contestant's name, address, and telephone number.
If accepted, you'll see it published
on this site by Rising Stars Publishing.
Rising Star Publishing reserves the right
to edit text before publishing.
The most heartfelt entries,
will receive a Renaissance of the Heart Month
"Kick off"television
show DVD
and an award certificate.
Winners will be published on the site
on February 28th 6:00 PM EST.
To all who enter this contest - good luck.
Thank you for your participation in this contest.
Remember
to give your heart a renaissance!
Annual
Heartfelt Thinking
Contest
for Young People (13 - 18 years old)
As
you know,
Renaissance of the Heart Month
is all about you following your heart as well as your head.
So, we want young people
(13-18 years old)
to write about your own heartfelt experiences
and enter them in our annual contest.
Send in a 50 - 100 words or less
journal entry, poem, short story or anecdote to
RenaissanceLady@RenaissanceoftheHeart.com
by February 14th, 6:00 PM EST.
All entries must be contained in the body of the email.
Entries must include
the contestant's name, address, and telephone number.
If accepted, you'll see it published
on this site by Rising Stars Publishing.
Rising Star Publishing reserves the right
to edit text before publishing.
The most heartfelt entries,
will receive a Renaissance of the Heart Month
"Kick off"television
show DVD
and an award certificate.
Winners will be published on the site
on February 28th 6:00 PM EST.
To all who enter this contest - good luck.
Thank you for your participation in this contest.
Remember
to give your heart a renaissance!
Annual
Heartfelt Thinking Day Contest
for Youngsters (9 - 13 years old)
As
you know,
Renaissance of the Heart Month
is all about you following your heart as well as your head.
So, we want youngsters
(9-13 years old)
to write about your own heartfelt experiences
and enter them in our annual contest.
Send in a 25-50 words or less
journal entry, poem, short story or anecdote to
RenaissanceLady@RenaissanceoftheHeart.com
by February 14th, 6:00 PM EST.
All entries must be contained in the body of the email.
Entries must include
the contestant's name, address, and telephone number.
If accepted, you'll see it published
on this site by Rising Stars Publishing.
Rising Star Publishing reserves the right
to edit text before publishing.
The most heartfelt entries,
will receive a Renaissance of the Heart Month
"Kick off"television
show DVD
and an award certificate.
Winners will be published on the site
on February 28th 6:00 PM EST.
To all who enter this contest - good luck.
Thank you for your participation in this contest.
"In dreams
and love there are no impossibilities.
- Janos Arany
"Happiness,
even peace
come to those that use heart centered thinking."
- Deborah LeBouf Kulkkula
'The lure of the
distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are."
- John Burroughs
"Love, in
the divine alchemy of life,
transmutes all duties into privileges,
all responsibilities into joys
- William George Jordan
"The Books
which help you most
are those which make you think most."
- Theodore Parker
"The greatest
calamity is not to have failed;
but to have failed to try."
- Anonymous
"Love is
the enchanted dawn of every heart."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
"Be not simply good - be
good for something."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Nothing great was ever
achieved without enthusiasm."
- Henry Ford
"There is no remedy for
love but to love more."
- Henry David Thoreau
"The worth
of a book is to be measured
by what you can carry away from it."
- James Bryce
"Those who
love deeply never grow old:
they may die of old age, but they die young."
- Sir Athur Pinero
"A man's
ambition should be high;
not scratched in dirt - carved in the sky."
- Thomas L. Forest
"No one ever
gets very far
unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day."
- Elbert Hubbard
"I know of
no more encouraging fact
than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life
by a concious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau
"The natural
flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,
but from hope to hope."
- Samuel Johnson
Remember to give your heart a renaissance!
Helpful Renaissance of the Heart Material
Set
up your own
Renaissance of the Heart (Heartfelt Thinking) Tea
with a free do it yourself email brochure.
Send an email to Deb
Kulkkula at
RenaissanceLady@RenaissanceoftheHeart.com
to receive this brochure
and/or with your questions about this event.
Remember to give your heart a renaissance!
Renaissance
of the Heart Booklets or DVDs
Heart Centered Thinking Booklet or DVD
Heart Centered Communications
Booklet or DVD
Heart Centered Writing
and Public Speaking Booklet or DVD
Each Booklet or DVD
costs $10.00
including shipping and postage
Please send your order with specified quantities and
what media is desired. e.g.: Booklets or DVD
with your check made out to Rising Star Speakers to
Rising Star Speakers
381 Billings Road
Fitchburg, MA 01420-1407
Questions? Need more
information?
Call us at 978-343-4009
or email us at
RenaissanceLady@RenaissanceoftheHeart.com
Remember to give your heart a renaissance!
Renaissance
of the Heart
Heart Centered Thinking
Heart Centered Communications
Heart Centered Writing and Public Speaking
Inspirational
The Happiest Married People Have a Secret
Painting a Possibility Picture
Catch Your Rising Star
Motivational
Developing Your Heart's Desire
What Do You Do When
Your Parachute
Is Only A Little Umbrella Possibility?
Become a Rising Star
Leadership
Making Everyone in Your Organization Feel Special
Conflict Management
Leading Ships with Heavy Cross Winds
Business
Prospecting for Gold (New Clients)
Hospitality Makes People Want To Come Back
Maximizing Manufacturing Profit
Public Speaking
Handling Audience Resistance
Inspiring Others
Delicious Presentations
Writing
Give Them “Heart”
From Instructor to Humorist
Copyrights and Wrongs
Overcoming
When Smiles Are All You Have Left
Creating Your Own Possibilities
Believing in Yourself is Good Therapy
Reflective
Finding Love, Peace, and Joy
Remembering When...
Finding Yourself
Just Crafts
Cooking Made Simple including Easy Cake Decorating
Distinctive Stationary
Creative Flower Arrangements
Volunteerism
The Joy of Volunteerism
Volunteering Your Professional Skills
The Power of Volunteering
Remember to give your heart a renaissance!
If
you would like Deb to speak to your group,
please call her at 978-343-4009 or email
her.
Presentation Fee: $750.00 plus expenses.
Special Requests Welcome!
If
you would like Deb to give a different presentation
please contact Deb at 978-343-4009 or by email.
If she has expertise in that area and enough time to develop a presentation,
she will be glad to present your topic.
“Deb's
life is a great adventure. She enjoys flying small private planes, public
speaking, helping other people, traveling whenever and wherever she can,
hosting television shows like Finding Our Way and Cooking Made Simple,
riding motorcycles, organizing functions and public relations campaigns,
boating, writing, and back packing/mountain climbing. At the center of
Deb's life is her husband and family. She loves them very much. Whenever
they need her, she is there. So it is surprising that she had any time
for a professional life. She's been an elementary school teacher, a college
curriculum librarian, and a volunteer. She is the executive director of
Rising Star Speakers formally known as Word Wits Writers and Speakers
Bureau. She continues to volunteer: helping bereaved parents, Veterans,
"at risk" young adults, entrepreneurs, Toastmasters and fledgling
writers. Deb has received a great many awards including an Hon. Ph. D.
in Philosophy and Toastmaster of the Year in 2000-1. However, she earned
two Masters Degrees maintaining a 4.0 average in both and six Distinguished
Toastmasters Awards. Currently, she inspires her audience with her wisdom,
grace, humor and hope. She powerfully shares how she triumphs over her
trials and tribulations with simple, energetic messages that transcend
occupations, culture, gender and age. With conviction, compassion, humor,
and clarity, she motivates her corporate audiences to work passionately
toward individual and organizational success. Memorable lessons are incorporated
into her presentations with poignant, often hilarious, but always heartfelt
stories. Remember that she represents the renaissance of the heart; and
that is what she offers her audience - HEART.”
– Rising Star Speakers Publicist Anne Stear
"Deb's life is much
more than Anne's description. She has been a supportive, creative, innovative,
loving wife, partner, mother, daughter, and daughter-in-law. I can count
on the fact that she is always helping one of them or a fellow writer
or speaker. She always takes care of me, our home, and everyone around
her. She even finds time in her busy professional life to make or take
me to supper every night. In 1993 we lost our 19 year old son, Peter John.
During the next ten years, we helped each other. Then we helped other
bereaved parents. We were both finding our new selves, when, in 2003 our
Vietnamese son, Quy Dan Ha, was killed. We were still in deep grief for
Quy, when Deb's father passed away after a long agonizing illness. Deb
took care of my mother for eight years after she had a really severe heart
attack that she was not expected to recover from. I think that her truly
tender loving care helped to heal her enough to enjoy life again. Then
in the last year of my mother's 93 year old life, Deb basically ceased
her professional work to give her the full time care that allowed my mother
to die at home. This did not surprise me because Deb always thinks with
her heart as well as head. In addition, it's no surprise to me that she
encourages everyone she meets to add a little heart to their thinking.
She really does represent "heartfelt thinking."
- Deb's husband, Peter Kulkkula
Remember to give your heart a renaissance!
Restoring
The Past: Fun Ways to Give Back
by: Susan B. Barnes | from: AARP
| July 2009
(Thank you AARP and Ms. Barnes!)
For many, volunteering is a way of life. Whether taking part consists of a few hours after work, an entire day, or months or years at a time, volunteering fulfills a need to give back.
Restoring the Past
The mission of the Heritage Conservation Network is to protect architectural heritage globally. Founded in 2002, the non-profit organization receives requests from all over the world and has pre-determined criteria to figure out which projects to tackle.
“Our workshops last one to two weeks at a site,” said Judith Broeker, co-founder and program director at the conservation organization. “It’s our goal to inspire locals to pick up where we leave off to complete the job.”
The group currently organizes seven workshops a year. Each of those typically has six to seven volunteer participants ranging from 16 to 80 years old.
“Amazing amounts of work get done for that small of a number,” Broeker said. “Everyone does what they can do.
“Each site we visit is amazing and has a really valuable building for the people or the country,” she added. “It’s a great area to work in—everyone wants to be there.”
Heritage Conservation Network currently has U.S. opportunities scheduled for 2010.
International opportunities include conserving a Swahili-style stone house in Kenya and preserving tower houses in Albania.
“In this day and age of being green, preservation is as green as you can get,” Broeker said. “We’re seeing what’s there and preserving it.”
Get Out There!
With 391 parks dotted throughout the United States, the National Park Service offers a plethora of volunteer opportunities in your own backyard, in cities, and in suburbs.
“Most people think of the great parks like the Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon when they think of us,” said Kathy Kupper, spokeswoman for the National Park Service. “But opportunities are much closer than people think.”
Volunteers with the park service do everything that the staff does, according to Kupper, including horse patrol, ski patrol, living history, building hiking/walking/biking trails, gardening, carpentry, and photography, in addition to campground hosting and staffing visitors centers. The possibilities are endless.
“For anyone who’s always dreamed of being a park ranger, it’s never too late,” Kupper said.
A truly unique opportunity is the artist-in-residence program, in which an artist lives within a park, gives demonstrations, and runs workshops during the duration of his or her stay. These opportunities are currently available in California, Maine, Minnesota, Arizona, Colorado, and more.
Kupper estimated that 50 percent of the National Park Service volunteers are retirees. In 2007, the organization benefited from a total of 5.4 million hours donated by 163,000 volunteers with a total monetary value of more than $101 million, or the equivalent of having an additional 2,596 full-time employees.
“Our volunteers help us see the parks in a different way sometimes,” she said. “We love working with our volunteers as much as they love working in the parks.”
The National Park Service is gearing up for its centennial in 2016, and over the next year or so, they’ll really start lining up volunteers for seasonal positions. Some of the positions may even be paid, according to Kupper; those positions will be listed on USAJOBS as they become available.
To find volunteer opportunities near you, visit www.nps.gov and click on “Find a Park.” Once on a local park’s Web site, search for volunteer opportunities or contact the volunteer coordinator.
Remember to give your heart a renaissance!
~Month
Description~
~Inspirational Video~
~Worldwide
Renaissance
of the Heart Tea~
~Annual Heartfelt
Thinking Contest~
~Heartfelt Thinking
Day
Contest (Young Adults)~
~Heartfelt Thinking
Day
Contest (Youngsters )~
~Valuable Quotes~
~Helpful Material~
~Helpful Products~
~Spokesperson Presentations~
~Bookings Welcome~
~Founder's Biography~
~Helpful Articles~
~For More Information~
~Helpful Related Links~
Contact Information
For more information
or
to contribute information,
contact Deborah
Kulkkula, Ph D
381 Billings Road, Fitchburg, MA 01420-1407
RenaissanceLady@RenaissanceoftheHeart.com
1-978-343-4009 (leave voice messages here)
1-978-808-8084 (leave text messages here)
Rising
Star Speakers
Board of Directors
Executive Director Deb Kulkkula
PR Director Sarbjit Thiara
Facilities Director Peter Kulkkula
Rising
Star Productions
Executive Producer Peter Kulkkula
Creative Director Deb Kulkkula
Rising
Star Publishing
Executive Publisher Jane Andrews
Executive Editor Deb Kulkkula
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Star Speakers
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Revised Annually by
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