My first lesson is at a meeting. As we settle around the table I hear Meg, who is 1 a recent operation, talking to Judith, the manager of our project. “Thank you so much for 2 my daughters to their dance lessons last week.” “Don't mention it,” Judith says, “It was nothing.”

    Knowing how 3 Judith's schedule is, with her work, kids and aging parents, I find her driving Meg's children to lessons unbelievably 4. I am about to say more about this when Donna, another colleague, enters the room 5. She apologizes for being late, saying she just hosted a lunch for her friends who are over seventy. “That is so nice of you,” I say, 6 how busy she is, how she doesn't like to cook and clean. “Oh,” she says, waving her hand, “It was nothing.” 7, I can still tell the 8 in her voice. She did gain a sense of satisfaction from the entertainment offered to her friends.

    Seeing their 9 to help others selflessly, I start thinking about the concept of “nothing”, this peaceful and generous way of living — had it really been nothing or are they simply saying that? It 10 to me that once I spent a whole afternoon after work helping a friend 11 a speech she was going to deliver. I 12 her to rearrange the sequence of the stories in the lecture to make it sound more 13. After the fifth try, she finally 14 it . She hugged me with 15, saying thanks to me. I smiled and said it was nothing.

    Suddenly, I realized that helping someone was really something to me. I learned that giving from the heart doesn't 16 mean sacrifice and hard work. The 17 is finding something we love to do and finding someone who 18 that something. Our generosity can benefit others 19 ourselves. Once you have a good 20 of it, it's nothing. And it's really something.

    One day while I was on the road, 1 a corner with flowers and a flag where somebody special got  2 .

    The next day when I passed this accident site again, I simply had to stop an  3 a prayer and since I had some flowers in my car, I put them down next to all the other flower 4 . 5 I went back in my car I asked myself: “Why am I stopping here? I do not even know this person?”

That night I had a very 6 dream. All of a sudden this young handsome man 7 to me and said: “Hello! I am Rocky—please tell my mom that I am OK and that I 8 her” and then he disappeared.

    When I woke up, I could not get this young man and his  9 out of my mind. I do not know Rocky and neither do I know his dear mom—so how in the world may I  10 his message to his mother? I asked God to help me.

    About two weeks later I went to  11 up my car at a nearby gas station. When I paid for my gasoline, I  12 the lady's necklace which was 13 like a star. When she took my money, she said that the  14 of her son are in there.

    I will never  15 this moment when everything became still and so  16 . I put my hand on hers and asked her: “What is your son's name?” and when she said “Rocky”, our eyes connected  17 and were filled with tears. I was  18 and not able to respond.

    I drove home sobbing. What I did should  19 the young man's dream into reality. I then wrote a note for Rocky's mom, telling her that her 20 'baby boy' visited me in my dreams and the he wanted me to tell her that he is OK and that he loves her.

    Jack Bruce,singer,songwriter and bassist（低音歌手）for legendary 1960s rock band Cream,died Saturday at 71. Bruce's family confirmed the1of the Scottish musician on his official website and Facebook page."The world of music will be a poorer place without2 ,but he lives on in his3 and forever in our hearts."

    Considered one of the greatest rock trios（三重奏）of all time,Cream was4by Bruce,guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker in 1966.The5 produced such hits as "Sunshine of Your Love" “White Room” "Crossroads" and "Strange Brew",many of which Bruce wrote and 6 .He also helped7the memorable guitar riff（重复乐节）in "Sunshine of Your Love".

    The band members' infighting and drug use became almost as well-known as their musical talent,and the group8ways in 1968."Jack felt that he had been lost too9 from his ideals and wanted to10his musical and social roots,"according to his official biography.

    Born to11parents in Glasgow,Scotland,in 1943,Bruce played in various dance bands and jazz groups before joining the Graham Bond Organization in 1962,12he met Baker.He later13 John Mayall's Blues Breakers and met guitarist Eric Clapton,14the formation of Cream.

    After group 15 ,Bruce went on to record solo albums and front bands.He16 more than a dozen solo albums over the next four decades,including his latest,"Silver Rails"in March.Cream17 briefly in 1993 for the band's being introduced to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    Baker expressed18on his Facebook page for the loss of a fine man.“My thoughts and wishes are with his19  at this difficult time.”

    Clapton,on his Facebook page,said Bruce "was a great20 ,and a great inspiration to me".

    I'm currently at a unique university, an inclusive one where 46 speech and hearing 1 students graduate each year. I have been working with these students to help them get clear on their career goals.

    Today, an 2 thing happened. One girl came at around 11: 30 am and sat down. I started with what we usually do. She can speak but cannot 3 or lip-read. So she started speaking in Tamil. When I managed to tell her that I couldn't speak Tamil, she spoke English.

    I 4 asking one question, and she went on for 10 minutes 5, and in Tamil. I understood a 6 of words here and there, so I knew she was not saying something 7 to what I asked. I was just looking straight in her eyes and smiling. I kept on 8 her without saying a word. This went on for an hour and a half!

    Then after a long 9, I told her to get back on 10 with another question. And then she shared for another half an hour straight! The 11 time I was just looking in her 12 but never 13 down.

    I had absolutely no 14 what she spoke for these hours, but what I knew was that I was listening to 15 she was sharing and also started understanding a bit in 16. Several times, I would 17 with a simple question: Are you happy? And she would 18 on.

    I was 19 happy because I saw her smiling in the end. And then, I just 20 and hugged her and she was smiling even wider.

    The Adams family home has been taken over by origami (折纸)in all sizes and shapes. No one seems to1hough. Those paper creations are2clean water projects around the world and saving lives. A messy home is a small price to pay3

    In 2011, Isabelle Adams and her sister Katherine learned that every five seconds a child died from4of clean water and that girls of their age couldn't go to school5they were fetching water all day for their families. They6to do something.

    "So we took something that we loved doing - folding origami, with the7goal to help fund a well in Ethiopia," explains Katherine.8, they ended up selling out and raising far more than that to fully9the cost of the well.

    Katherine, now 13, adds, "It just snowballed,10the founding of the project Paper for Water." In eight years, this project has11more than 2 million for over 200 water projects in 20 different countries.

    Now, the rest of the Adams family are also12. But at the heart of it, beneath countless paper decorations sit two bold sisters hoping to13other girls and boys. "Kids have an incredible ability to make a real14to the world if they're just given the chance," Isabelle says, "and if people15them in their efforts."