Just when you think kindness is going the way of the dodo bird (becoming extinct), you hear a story like this one. Thank heavens – hope lives! A couple days ago, as soon as the sun came up, my cousin Howard (age 72) spent four hours working in his vegetable garden in north Florida until ...
When Old Faithful Turns Rancid
Patience. Kindness. I’ve been thinking an awful lot about these attributes lately. Especially in this era of socially acceptable impatience and rudeness. I feel like I should make the sign of the cross and wear garlic around my neck every time I sit at my computer. Yikes. I’m afraid to say anything for fear of ...
Kindness Necklace
I ran across a story yesterday that pretty much says it all. It was an article I’d clipped from the Tampa Trib (5/27/15) titled, “Carjacked Grandmother Details Hardest 20 Minutes of Her Life.” The story begins with a 60-year-old grandma, Susan Davidson, stopping for gas at a well-lit and populated gas station not far from ...
Tool for Peace: Kindness
As confrontations roar these days between people of opposing political opinions, torqued neighbors make it feel like you’re living on the threshold of hades itself, and snarky online comments inflict flaming arrows of hidden origin (and sometimes not so hidden), I’ll admit it hurts my heart. Yours too, no doubt. And I know it hurts ...
