ripple kindness

  • I’ll race ya!

    . I was in Walmart, tired and hurting, and had just checked out and was heading for the door. There was a woman who had also just checked out at a register closer to the door. She looked like I felt! She pulled her cart over and got her keys out of her purse. Our…

  • Meals on Wheels

    . Meals on Wheels is an organization run here in Australia by administrators and volunteers. Volunteers cook the food and deliver it and I am one of the volunteers who deliver the food, either by using my car or taking the meal inside to the people. It is like stepping back in time, when you…

  • A helpful passenger

    . I observed an elderly lady with a walker trying to cross a street. She was aware that traffic was waiting on her so she was trying to hurry. A passenger in one of the waiting vehicles got out and asked if she could escort the women across the road. The lady was so pleased…

  • It was a good day!

    So, my RAK worked today! Was in our local corner shop and an old gent, a pensioner comes back in asking if anyone had seen a fiver that he had dropped just minutes before when in the shop. We looked everywhere, but couldn’t find it, he was pretty upset as he needed it to put some…

  • Mistaken identity

    . Sometimes I feel like I practically live at the grocery store. I was at the deli counter AGAIN and joking with the guys behind the counter about how often I’m there, and I feel a small body snuggle itself to my side and arms go around my waist. I knew immediately someone mistook me…

  • Her name was Diane

    . A lady was walking by my house recently on the street as the snow plows had not cleared the side walks… we are having a terrible snowy/cold longer than normal winter… she was walking on a busy street by my house. I decided to pull over and ask her if I could offer her…

  • Good Karma

    . I visited Dominican of Republic in 1998 after Hurricane Mitch had ravaged the Island. I gave my friend Ruby my favorite dress. Actually I gave all of my clothes to the Dominican women because clothes are a precious commodity on an island. Well anyway, a few years later I was at a store and…

  • They needed it

    . My Mom and Dad were moving back from South Texas and met a family along the way. The man had lost his job and they were moving somewhere also. They needed a bed. My parents took one of the beds out of their trailer and gave it to them. At the time I was…