October 2011
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kimmy
This might be very shocking. BUT it is reality.
WATCH: movie called “War Photographer”.
Sands is moved by
The smell and sound of rain in the rainforest.
A happy toddler.
Certain songs.
The movie Charlie and Boots.
February 2011
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Jim is Moved By Mountains, Motorcycles, Music, and...
Nothing is more beautiful than the mountains, when you can breathe in that mountain air and view and sigh peace.
Riding motorcycles can move me like no other, literally and figuratively. Truly Zen.
Some music stirs the soul. Finding that song that moves you doesn’t happen all the time but when it does, it’s magical.
My dogs are my children. They are the purest definition of...
June 2010
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Monica Is Moved By...Love Dance
I was at an American Legion dinner (in West Virginia) on New Year’s Eve. There was a country band playing and my husband and I were just down the table from a very elderly couple. I don’t know what song started to play, but the gave each other a meaningful look, got up simultaneously, and he led her to the dance floor. They spent that entire song and several more lovingly in each...
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Charlotte Is Moved By...The Journey Back From...
Many such moments are very personal - maybe too much so - to share. Here are mine. You decide:
My second son’s brave and funny, heart breaking, heart healing journey back from alcoholism. He’s 4 years sober now, building a life that gives him joy and self-respect
The singing of the choir in my old church- a genuine Black gospel choir, singing from the soles of their feet up. They...
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Brandon Is Moved By...Couples That Find True...
As I’ve aged, I’ve observed the life cycle of many marriages and relationships. Very few of these relationships are happy ones. It pains me to realize that even my own parents, though they love each other, do not share the quality of which I speak. I can’t describe it, but I always know it when I see it. It’s elusive and magical and the only similarity that carries over from one couple to...
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Will Is Moved By...The Miracle of His Daughter,...
Lucy was born with a congenital heart defect that required open heart surgery to correct. At four days old, she triumphed over more than most grown men ever face when doctors opened her chest, removed her heart, repaired it, and placed it back inside her. In the two years since, she’s grown into the strongest, most beautiful little girl.
Still, I can’t help but see a shadow of the...
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Teresa Is Moved By...Quiet Kindnesses
I worked for a veterinarian who once let an older woman leave his clinic without paying for the services for her dog received. He made no fuss; he knew that dog meant everything to her and she couldn’t afford the visit. He didn’t know I witnessed this moment; he probably would have been embarrassed simply because it wasn’t the kind of thing he liked to announce. He was a man of...
May 2010
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Doug Is Moved By...No One
I just love the morning light at this time of year, it’s so warm colored, orange, red and if I head up over the coastal range before the sun makes it over the hills in the east bay then the slant of the sun hits the surface of the water at Crystal Springs in such a way that it appears to be a huge misty mirror. It only lasts a short time before the air warms up and the local fog...
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Karon Is Moved By...Earth & Sky
The incredible landscape of the southwest and the ever changing skies and the intensity of the sunsets here take my breath away. When caught up in daily minutia and I suddenly get a glimpse of the red orange sunset as I’m driving down the highway, I am so taken and lost in its beauty that I forget all the little stuff, forget the crap, the worries, the fear and am moved and filled with...
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Michelle Is Moved By...3 Things
Birth, sunshine & tears.
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Berthold Is Moved By...The Internet
It’s not so much just one particular site or topic or person. It’s the fact that through sharing our ideas and knowledge, our mistakes and fears and our wishes and dreams with the world we connect in a way that was not possible before.
It’s no longer happening on the other side of the country, the continent or the planet. It’s happening on our desks, in our homes and in...
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Ricardo Is Moved By...Living the Moment
I am a curious guy, I have been all my life, so I like to try new things, and normally I have a lot of fun doing it. I like to put my heart in all the things I do without violating my principles (honesty, respect for others and reliability), and without worrying to much about the future. Being this way thing have always turned for the best.
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Aurora Is Moved By...Human Touch
I am moved by endless things, but the most powerful, I would have to say is skin to skin contact. I love to touch and be touched. It is a connection so deep that it can make some people uncomfortable. It brings me back to the sentiments of intimacy and the bare minimum. If we are naked with no possessions, we can still touch and feel. Touch can be a beautiful intimate moment with no indication...
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Scott Is Moved By...The Divine
There are moments when I feel the divine. The soft fur on the bottom of a cat’s back paws. The repetitive crack of bat hitting ball in batting practice, children yelling on a distant school playground. A saxophonist holds a note low, creating new life with his own life breath.
I only feel tied into humanity, to compassion, by a desire to serve something greater than myself. The light of...
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Malena Is Moved By...Tetslaff Tchaikovsky's...
I was moved by the last movement of the Tchaikovsky’s violin Concerto played by Christian Tetzlaff with the San Francisco Symphony in March 2010. It was the best interpretation I have heard in years, took my breath away and I felt like waking on air.
Unfortunately it was a live concert at the San Francisco symphony and they didn’t record it, but here is a version by Perlman:
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Carolyn Is Moved By....Knowing That It Is The...
There is nothing as significant as effort. It never fails, never. I am moved by those who understand that.
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Gillian Is Moved By...Swings
Sitting on a swing and deciding to “reach for the sky” (moves me)
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Lamiatopia Is Moved By...the Knowledge She'll Die...
What moves me is the thought that someday I’ll die and be forgotten. The thought that I’ll leave this life just as I’ve came to it. I believe that the only way to reach immortality is by leaving a legacy strong enough to survive the test of time. What moves me? The quest for immortality…
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Alisa Is Moved By...Her Most Difficult Times
I don’t want that to sound like I love to be sad or something - because I don’t - I have deep smile lines on this face of mine. The why - because they force me to stay still, look at myself in the mirror and ask - why am I here? What did I do to contribute to this situation? And how can I make changes in my life to not be here in this particular spot for this particular reason...
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Lux Is Moved By...Connection
I am moved by people feeling connected-to & understood-by other people.
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Teresa Is Moved By...The "Before I Die...Project"
‘Hearing hundreds of different answers to this question from hundreds of different people makes one wonder: What make some people more aware of their own mortality than others? What motivates people to take action in their lives? What values do we hold as a society? And what values do other societies around the world find important’ - from the website of the Before I...
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Chris Is Moved By...Scuba Diving
SCUBA diving in the ocean is my “religious experience.” Floating weightless, free to move in three dimensions and constantly surrounded by life! In my thousand plus hours under the ocean, I’ve encountered creatures and scenes of a beauty that beat any I’ve found on land. In a world where you can mingle, unafraid, with the largest of predators and where every surface is...
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Jim Is Moved By...His 4-Year-Old's Compassion
My son is 4 years old and just one bundle of energy from the time he gets up in the morning until he goes to sleep at night. A kid that has a hard time sitting still for more than a few minutes and is just constantly on the go and exploring the outdoors and what makes things tick. And he is very high strung, stubborn, and strong willed… often to the chagrin of my wife and I. However,...
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Russell Is Moved By...Four Tet
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Kristina Is Moved By...The Dirty, Messy Details
I love to hear people’s stories, including and especially all the dirty, messy details. There is so much hard work and bravery that goes on behind the scenes in most people’s inner lives. Recognizing this fills everyday events with a sense of wonder and achievement, because it means knowing how intensely and beautifully complicated people are.
Sometimes folks try to hide their inner...
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Scott Is Moved By...His Own Death
I know this sounds morbidly strange but when I’m bored or frustrated or out of sorts, thinking about dying has a surprisingly positive effect on me. When I realize I will die someday, and try to visualize it, imagining the notion this will all be over, my senses vibrate in a way I can’t explain. It’s a crapshoot to be alive at all, and here I am, born at a time and place where I...
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Peter Is Moved By...Reunions
Stories of people that meet again, after having been separated for stupid reasons (not prison, more separated-at-birth, lost contact through missing postcards, parents separating, etc.).
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Todd Is Moved By...Giving Things Up
People who give up important experiences or desires in life for the sake of others. Ex: My father-in-law never went to graduate school in literature because he needed to work to support his family.
Amber is moved by...kindness
When someone is truly kind to me or someone close to me - whether spontaneously or intentionally - it touches my heart and makes me feel overwhelmed, special, and most of all - grateful.
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Scott Is Moved By...Courage
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Ty Is Moved By...The Short List of a Very Long...
witnessing: insects busy building. strengths hidden in a fluid movement. ticks and tocks of yesteryear machinery. sincere empathy. the sugar stickiness of juicy fruit drip drip dripping. surprising melodies. honest social graces. arrivals and departures. the cycles of life. beats subtle in footsteps. instant deep-rooted friendships. words of story tellers. warm and screaming sunshine....
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Greg Is Moved By...Rocks in the Ocean
One Day on the Rocks in China dry pigments on paper (pastels)
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Gina Is Moved By...O Mio Babbino Caro
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Evan Is Moved By...Passion
People who are truly passionate about something. That moves me like nothing else. More so, people who have pure passion (doing something purely for love) - no restrictions, no barriers, but a passion for something and an open canvas in pursuit of that passion.
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Chiara Is Moved By...
The Mayonnaise Jar and similar philosophies.
April 2010
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Ben Is Moved By...
The change from major to minor.
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Leah Is Moved By...Puppies
[click here to see this one in action]
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Jenni Is Moved By...This Face
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Kate Is Moved By...Shadows of Souls
Elements of humanity and the stories that carry them. Especially when they get built into the environment or are used to create a wider experience, like a shadow of soul that peeks out of the hustle and bustle of life. Like the fact that in the WWII American cemetery in Normandy, France, all the graves face West towards home. Like the beams of light that shined up as a reverse shadow of the...
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Jared Is Moved By...Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto
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Kendra Is Moved By...Design Hacks
I am moved by the smell of the air when it’s about to rain.
I am moved by people & their clever “design hacks” (duct tape wallets, holding a magazine over their head when it’s raining).
I am moved by the hilarious observations that little kids make.
I love watching and observing sub-cultures that I am not part of and trying to understand motivations, rituals,...
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Christian Is Moved By...This Painting By Cy...
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Peter Is Moved By...3 Things:
My son. My wife’s passions and abilities. The movie MY LIFE AS A DOG.