@dylanraines

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 St Joseph, MO
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Joined July 2010
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Got my first feedback on my book. If you're an author, what did it feel like for you when someone first acknowledged your work, and said something positive?
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Make things, and make things happen. Don’t allow fear of mistakes, or fear of others may thing, standing in the way of you creating what is within you to make.
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Peace usually arrives when we put something down, not when we pick something up. What's one thing you could set down today?
Still misty lake at dawn with a small wooden rowboat, pines and soft peach sky, with white text: Peace usually arrives when we put something down, not when we pick something up. Signed Dylan Raines.

ALT Still misty lake at dawn with a small wooden rowboat, pines and soft peach sky, with white text: Peace usually arrives when we put something down, not when we pick something up. Signed Dylan Raines.

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Five questions about purpose from this week: What was your last goal for? What do you keep noticing? What did your last week say you care about? What helps when direction goes missing? What is your community for? Which is hardest to answer honestly?
Text card: Five questions about purpose from this week: What was your last goal for? What do you keep noticing? What did your last week say you care about? What helps when direction goes missing? What is your community for?

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Peace isn't the absence of noise. It's no longer arguing with it. Where's the one place you feel most at peace?
Quote card on cream background in deep green text: Peace isn't the absence of noise. It's no longer arguing with it. Signed Dylan Raines.

ALT Quote card on cream background in deep green text: Peace isn't the absence of noise. It's no longer arguing with it. Signed Dylan Raines.

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Miss Clara makes ice cream "to make our town a happier, sweeter place to live." Some work exists simply to bring joy. That is no small thing. What simple joy are you sharing this weekend? A World of Possibilities: amazon.com/World-Possibiliti…
Illustration from A World of Possibilities: Miss Clara hands a delighted Anna a towering five-scoop ice cream cone while Grandpa grins and a white puppy sits by a stool.

ALT Illustration from A World of Possibilities: Miss Clara hands a delighted Anna a towering five-scoop ice cream cone while Grandpa grins and a white puppy sits by a stool.

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Contentment isn't settling. It's finally noticing what was already here. What's something ordinary you'd miss terribly if it were gone?
A steaming mug of tea on a weathered wooden porch railing at sunrise, overlooking a misty meadow.

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I’m excited to introduce the Humanitarian Explorer podcast! Each morning, we explore humanitarian news across five areas: 💧 Clean Water 🍎 Food & Nutrition 📚 Education Access 🩺 Health & Wellness 🌿 Healthy Environment We look at the challenges people face and the work being done to help. My hope is to make it easier to stay informed, feel connected to our human family, and discover ways to make a difference. Listen and follow on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/54SDA3… Thank you for listening and sharing this new journey with me.

Humanitarian Explorer

Podcast · Dylan Raines · A daily five-minute briefing on the most important humanitarian news from around the world: clean water, food and nutrition, education access, health and wellness, and a...

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Enough is a feeling, not a number. What's one small thing that made today feel like enough?
Quote card on a cream background: Enough is a feeling, not a number. Dylan Raines

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Most impatience isn't about time. It's about control. What's one thing you keep trying to hurry that just won't be hurried?
Quote card on cream background: "Most impatience isn't about time. It's about control." Signed Dylan Raines.

ALT Quote card on cream background: "Most impatience isn't about time. It's about control." Signed Dylan Raines.

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Miss Bloom told Anna, "Flowers bring peace to our busy streets." She doesn't grow them just to sell roses. She grows them so a whole town has somewhere to pause and breathe. Some work is simply about giving others room to rest. Where do you go to pause?
Illustration: Anna leans in to smell a rose in Miss Bloom's large pink bouquet while a hummingbird and butterfly hover overhead and Grandpa smiles.

ALT Illustration: Anna leans in to smell a rose in Miss Bloom's large pink bouquet while a hummingbird and butterfly hover overhead and Grandpa smiles.

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A seed doesn't feel late. Only we do. What's something in your life you're tired of waiting on?
A tiny green seedling with two dewy leaves rising from dark soil in warm early morning light.

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Never. Stop. Trying.
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Compassion begins the moment we stop needing someone to deserve it. When was the last time someone was kind to you before you'd earned it?
Quote card on cream background: "Compassion begins the moment we stop needing someone to deserve it." Signed Dylan Raines.

ALT Quote card on cream background: "Compassion begins the moment we stop needing someone to deserve it." Signed Dylan Raines.

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Mister Antonio put his hand over his heart and told Anna, "I cook large plates of pasta to gather the town." A meal shared turns strangers into friends. It gives people a place to belong. Most work carries a reason like that underneath it. We just forget to ask. Whose table made you feel like you belonged?
Illustration: chef Mister Antonio, hand on heart, beside a steaming plate of spaghetti and basil. Anna gazes up at him while Grandpa smiles and a brown dog peeks over the candlelit table.

ALT Illustration: chef Mister Antonio, hand on heart, beside a steaming plate of spaghetti and basil. Anna gazes up at him while Grandpa smiles and a brown dog peeks over the candlelit table.

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Most of us are kinder to strangers than to ourselves on a hard day. What's one thing you'd say to a friend that you rarely say to yourself?
Soft golden morning light streaming through trees onto a calm, misty lake.

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A small practice from writing A World of Possibilities: The next time you buy bread, or a book, or a cup of coffee, ask the person behind the counter what they enjoy about the work. Children ask this freely. Adults usually stop. Kindle and paperback: amazon.com/World-Possibiliti… What answer has surprised you?
Illustration: baker Miss Rose in an apron holding a tray of golden muffins by a stone oven while Anna and Grandpa look on warmly.

ALT Illustration: baker Miss Rose in an apron holding a tray of golden muffins by a stone oven while Anna and Grandpa look on warmly.

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"What is my purpose?" is hard to answer head-on. Two smaller questions may get closer: What do I keep noticing that others walk past? Where do people already come to me for help? Purpose often seems to show up where our attention meets someone else's need.
Text card: Purpose tends to appear where your attention meets someone else's need.

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Somewhere along the way, we start asking children what they want to be. One answer. One path. Anna never quite accepts that. The more people she meets, the more she wants to grow into all of it. What if the better question is: what are you curious about today?
Illustration: Grandpa with his arm around Anna on a park bench under a big tree at sunset, the glowing town behind them and a deer peeking in.

ALT Illustration: Grandpa with his arm around Anna on a park bench under a big tree at sunset, the glowing town behind them and a deer peeking in.

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At the shoe store, Mister Ben tells Anna, "I love helping people get to where they want to go." She wiggles her toes and wonders where her own feet might take her one day. Where did yours take you that you never expected?
Illustration from A World of Possibilities: Mister Ben kneels to tie Anna's bright red shoes as she sits on a wooden bench, shelves of boots behind them and Grandpa looking on

ALT Illustration from A World of Possibilities: Mister Ben kneels to tie Anna's bright red shoes as she sits on a wooden bench, shelves of boots behind them and Grandpa looking on

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Anna is five. She walks through town with her grandfather and asks everyone the same question: why do you do this work? The baker, the dress maker, the cook, the florist, the bookseller. Each answer opens a little more of the world. A World of Possibilities is out now. dylanraines.com/books/a-worl… What question did you ask most as a child?
Cover of the children's book A World of Possibilities by Dylan Raines

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