H+ (boast about your pons)

Pons are small actions of help. They give a sense of achievement and boost self-esteem. The word 'pon' is short for 'positive action'. You can also add pons that you have not carried out, as suggestions to others, since pons are not always easy to find.

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Permalink Reply by Andy on April 5, 2009 at 12:05
I pick up a piece of trash on the ground.
Permalink Reply by Andy on April 10, 2009 at 16:19
Pon: Respecting others by not ignoring them: smiling at them if appropriate. (From The Happiness Purpose)
Permalink Reply by Linda Laird on April 19, 2009 at 23:53
I rescued a frog today from being skinned alive by my strimmer. I took a little nick out of him before I saw him. Does this count?
Permalink Reply by Andy on April 20, 2009 at 7:17
It definitely counts!
Permalink Reply by Franis on May 31, 2009 at 23:15
I am acting as liaison for care and patient advocate for the 27 yr. old daughter of an old friend of mine. The girl, formerly working as a talented juggler, is having serious trouble recovering the use of her mind after taking LSD two weeks ago. Touchingly, she also allows only me to comb the neglected dread-locked matt of her hair.
Permalink Reply by Franis on June 1, 2009 at 20:49
I introduced one friend who needed someone to take care of their dog for a couple of days to another friend in their neighborhood who also has small dogs. I enjoy encouraging community connections.
Permalink Reply by Franis on June 10, 2009 at 11:40
I helped a baby gecko who had somehow ended up on my car toward a new place to live that had water and bugs near a supermarket water tap.
I would say that yes - Linda Laird's rescue of the frog definitely counts, even if the frog got nicked. Mitigating the effect of humans on the local fauna makes me feel a little better about being a human.
Permalink Reply by William Jack Jordan on August 27, 2009 at 14:28
I recently chatted and was friendly with a drunken stranger who was going to jail the next day for stealing cars.

Two days later a similar thing happened with a stranger in a bus who had just been released from jail for drunken driving and was wrapped he was going to see his two kids.

It would have been easy to shy away from these guys, but I believe something positive came from accepting them.
Permalink Reply by Phil Bachmann on August 27, 2009 at 21:12
Jack,

Excellent pons.

I recently asked a woman why her children were delightfully friendly and she told me that it's because her kids were always hanging around the pub her parents-in-law owned. In this way they learned from an early age that unusual looking people are usually interesting and often kind to kids.
Permalink Reply by Franis on October 28, 2009 at 17:58
Thanks Samir!
Adding to the pon above the post you made, (so am replacing that post with this one.)

I've helped a disabled person start & write a blog about the In Home Support Services cuts in CA. You can find this blog by searching mystoryinca.blogspot

I suggested to her she start writing this blog. People were giving her suggestions without any idea what she was really facing. She thought that if she wrote it down, she could have people read it and not have to keep repeating herself. She realized that each time she talked about these problems, it made her feel suicidal. But she needs the help and suggestions of others. She'll check out any suggestions she gets.

While she was getting a tooth fixed, the inexperienced dentists at the discounted service for disabled people messed up her new crown by breaking her prepared tooth before the crown was set into place. The recommended she remove the botched tooth. I took her to get a second opinion, offered to pay for it - but the second dentist was so sympathetic that he did not charge for his opinion. He recommended that, although the job was botched, that the tooth can last as long as a few years - so, to keep it in place. So - double pons - for both the dentist, who is named Brian Barientos in Bolinas, CA and myself!
Permalink Reply by Franis on May 9, 2012 at 8:09

I was in a campground, (Ho'okena Beach Park) when I discovered a large brown colored praying mantis (about six inches long) who had blundered into something sticky. It appeared to have been jelly. One of it's front grasping claws were completely glued closed, and both its front grasping claws looked slightly atrophied as their opposing graspers had been apparently limited for some time. As it had tried to clean itself off, it's mandibles (jaw) had also become stuck, as had it's antennae. I noticed there was something wrong as it was attempting to clean black stuff off it's head unsuccessfully.

I got out my water sprayer, and gradually, by gently spraying it off, dissolved the sticky substance that was causing the problem for the mantis. After it rested for a bit and I could observe it touching each part of it's body in turn...discovering the new state of being freed, I was quite happy with the results. Then I had it crawl onto me and released the mantis in an area outside the campground where it was unlikely to get stepped on, driven over or get into further trouble.

Hope that my intervention happened in time to save it's life and it wasn't too depleted to find food on it's own from then on.

Permalink Reply by jf on May 9, 2012 at 15:10

This has happened to me today. Half an hour ago. Every year when summer approaches, there are the curtains in my house a few small insects.

I would make a "pons", instead of killing them, I wanted to transfer them to the street.

I took 5 insects and introduced in a box, for transfer to the street. My surprise came to see that before it happened a minute, there were mating same. LOL !!!!.


Here the photo;

After leaving for a while. I've allowed the insects escape out the window toward the street. I think I made a big operation. 

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