Well Operation Speedway Kindness had a chance to shine today….. Once again I was in Speedway getting a soda and today brought a spur of the moment opportunity for me to help someone. This time it was me behind someone else! I was in line and the lady in front of me was having some…
My son is a skateboarder. He is 11 and has been competing locally for the last few years. During a competition 3 years ago, he was skating against 3 other beginner skaters, one of which was a little girl about his age. Since the little ones don’t know a whole lot of tricks, they had them…
I was in the grocery store the other day and there is a big brand coffee shop you have to walk by to get to the store. As I was walking past, I heard a lady saying her mother was ill and she wanted to take her a treat. She was counting coins to get…
. I volunteer at local nursing homes. I have volunteered since I was a teenager as it was expected in our home to volunteer, and watching my mother and grandmother volunteer, it just was something that I enjoyed doing. My mother volunteered almost until her death at 90, even with Alzheimers, we would go to…
. I go to many self help meetings and frequent some more than others. Having recently graduated from college as a support counselor, I listen to many people for nothing, just to let them talk. One afternoon after a meeting, I met an occasional friend. I had taken him for coffee once, and said ‘lets go for coffee’.
Today was extra special because my colleagues and I pulled off a RAK for our school secretary. She is an incredible person and as you can imagine, she does way more than just answer phones and type letters. She IS the most important person in our school, bar none. The RAK went down like this…
I’m just so proud of my kids I wanted to share their RAOK. They were getting a little bogged down by the presents they wanted for Christmas, so we had a big chat about the spirit of giving. On their own, they decided to bake cookies and give them out in our neighbourhood (even though we don’t…
. During World Kindness Week, I wanted to do something nice whilst remaining anonymous, so I stuck $2 on my work vending machine. I left a little note and included the Ripple Kindness web address. The following week, the $2 was still there.
. When my grandpa was one, his mother died and his father couldn’t cope with 5 children so he put them into a home. My grandpa was too young, so he lived with the neighbours until they couldn’t care for him anymore and he also went into a home, but a different home. They were…
. I am often moved to help homeless people I encounter. I’ll tell you about the most recent time. I drove into the parking lot at a supermarket and saw an older gentleman sitting on a curb. Next to him was a shopping cart which contained everything he owned. It was a cold, drizzly day…
. My grandma grew up with a simple goal: to be a wife and mother. She found herself exactly that in the mid-50s. Happy. After some time and three children, she discovered her husband was cheating on her. She followed him one evening on suspicion and found he had another family. She tried to beg…
. I went to my local grocery store and there was a man asking for change so he could get breakfast. I searched in my purse to find a dollar to give him, and I knew I had dollars because I had gotten change before going to the store. I searched and searched, but I…