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Mayor's Office
DATE: April 19, 2022
TO: Members of the City Council
FROM:
Tom Butt, Mayor
Subject:
Global Love Day – May 1, 2022
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STATEMENT OF THE
ISSUE:
In 2004, Harold Becker and The Love Foundation
recognized Global Love Day to acknowledge, celebrate,
and share the love we have within by recalling that love is the link that binds us all and the awesome power that
heals and transforms everything it contacts.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
PROCLAMATION declaring May 1, 2022, as Global Love
Day in the City of Richmond – Mayor’s Office (Mayor
Tom Butt 510-620-6503).
DISCUSSION:
In a world that has historically revered the negative and fear-based aspects, mainstream information sources frequently present a narrow and negative perspective of what is happening upon this planet, but to the contrary, we see and know that good and right is occurring everywhere - look for love and you will see it all around you. This simple reminder changes the very nature of our experience - we are what we place our AGENDA
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attention upon and when we allow love to be our focus of life, we expand this in our everyday activities - it is as simple as changing each perspective and allowing the negative and limiting views to be released and replaced by a higher, more loving understanding.
We are one humanity on this planet. All life is interconnected and interdependent. All share in the universal bond of love. Love begins with self-acceptance and forgiveness.
With respect and compassion, we embrace diversity. Together we make a difference through love.
The City of Richmond urges community members to choose love, compassion, peace, and unity and to love locally and spread it globally. I was living in San Francisco during the Summer of Love in 1967.
DOCUMENTS ATTACHED:
Attachment 1 – Proclamation