When my wife and I went to pick up our take-away from Piyawat Thai restaurant in Bendigo, we asked the person serving at the counter if we could pay for another take-away order that was waiting to be picked up. Of course he looked at us with bewilderment and confusion, “you don’t need to do…
I was given a nice pay it forward today. I was getting my hair cut and my stylist and I were talking about food and I said how I would love to go for sushi. She said well, why don’t you go? I told her about the unexpected medical bills I had this week when…
What happens when a small act of kindness ripples through someone’s life? This exclusive director’s cut of the short film Ripple by Daniel Yam had me in tears. It’s a heartwarming story of a man who has the opportunity to pay a good deed forward he received from a stranger when a child. This act…
It is important to take time in your life to see the beauty and the lessons that come into our lives but we tend to be too busy to take time to breath them in. Today I had a sweet man come and put more installation into the attic. He had a challenge when he…
I was in the supermarket and a man approached me with just a few coins in his hand. We were both in the pet food aisle and I was buying food for my cats. I had noticed him looking at the prices and then looking at the coins in his hand and when he came up to…
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 have a friend that told me she had looked at a bracelet that cost $300.00 and she just had to have it because it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. She said she saved to get it although she had a lot of jewelry. She said she bought it and just…
. I’m a single mom to girls, I work 30 hours a week at the local university and attend graduate school there full time. My ex no longer pays child support and it made it hard for us to make ends meet. I started to think about dropping out of grad school so I could…
. There was this very old man who walked miles collecting cans. One day I asked him if he wanted mine and he gave me his address. A few days later I dropped them off at his tiny rental. We got to talking and became friends and soon IÂ was taking him to the recycling station…
I myself am in a 12 step recovery program, and by the grace of God and the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, today I can say I am sober one more day. I live in a very small community, and do not give it a second thought to help out. On my way to the post…
. A few months ago, my friend and I were in the hairdressers. She and I both have disabilities and are in wheelchairs. At the start of my haircut I was told that it would cost me about $80. Not sure how much it cost my friend, but much cheaper. Anyway, at the end of…