Kindness in the dictionary is defined as a noun, I tend to disagree. I first remember becoming aware of the importance of kindness when I was a small child. I had a difficult childhood due to severe bullying in the home by an older family member. Being an old soul in a young body, I…
We were leaving the E.R. after getting treatment for my son, when we saw a man outside in a wheelchair. It was pretty hard not to notice him as he was distressed and shouting about something we couldn’t understand. As we approached, I noticed he had a cast on his foot, so I asked…
. About 18 years ago, I was a property manager and had a tenant who was going through a rough time. I was dirt poor, but random acts don’t have to be costly. I secretly left little angel items for her to find on or in her car (if the window happened to be open)….
I was terrified of flying having been on a plane years before that had skidded sideways down the runway on landing. Well, I had to fly from GA to NY alone for medical care and I was terrified! I was sitting next to a gal I did not know and I know she could tell…
. I was a young teacher back in 1970 in a local high school. I was teaching French and some of the teachers were going to Europe, which included three days in Paris. I really wanted to go, but was only making 5,000 a year and I really couldn’t afford the trip. I was living…
All my life, I have been very fortunate to have kind and generous family and friends that always seemed to help out just when I needed it the most. Most of them have passed on already so there is no way to ever pay them back (as if they would have expected it anyway!). Because…
. Me, John Sutton, and Serenity were on our way home from Royalton when we ran out of gas on a back road. I went up to a house and told the woman who answered we were out of gas down the road and asked her if she had a gas can or a can…
. My daughter was approached by a homeless man and was asked for money to eat. After having the different thoughts cross her mind, she told him she’d be right back. She returned with several burgers, fries and a drink. When she was giving him the food, she asked him if he would let her…
. My friend is in a nursing home I visit and I talk lots of the residents. There used one lady named Mary. She loved dolls and would go to yard sales to get her a doll. Well every one wanted a doll after that, even a man wanted a bear. I got dolls and…
At Christmas I was feeling rather down, so I thought I’d pick myself up by being kind to someone else. I made a few stockings for children and called a couple of our local hospitals to see if they had any children of those ages there. Just so happen one hospital had a 8 year…
. I saw a homeless man walking over the overpass in Lake St Louis today. I was getting food and it was -15 with wind chill. I ordered the man a full breakfast with extra large coffee and some hand warmers at the gas station. I found out he was a Vietnam veteran that served…
. One night while dining out with my husband at “Red Lobster”, a young couple was trying to have dinner with their newborn baby. The baby was fussy, so the new mother was standing near their table with her baby on her shoulder trying to steal bites of her food while comforting her newborn.Â