I look back over my life and see so many acts of kindness I have been blessed to receive. One sticks out especially due to recent events. Let me lead this with the fact that the City of Miami gets a bad reputation way too often. I had just moved to Miami and was on…
I was in the bank to withdraw money so I could pay for our bus tickets to take my kid’s to visit their dad, but the bank said the money had not cleared. I was really upset and so were my kids was we left the bank. The young lady who was behind us in…
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…
. 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…
. 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 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…
. This is a story I was told about my grandfather who passed before I was born, but I have used it as my inspiration to be as good as I can to everyone I come in contact with. Every day for years my grandpa would take his work crew to breakfast before starting their…
My nine year old and I stopped by a store to run some errands. There was a young man in a wheel chair asking for money. We decided to give him my son’s after school snack and some money. I asked him if he would like a blanket for his legs since it was very…