Isn’t it wonderful to have a soft place to land when the day may have been particularly unkind. That feeling that someone there has your back and is willing to defend you. I’m lucky, I have many people in my life who will do just that. Sometimes when I don’t even know it’s happening. Last […]
Kindness Doesn’t Need A Language, It Is A Language
For the last few months we’ve noticed her. At first we didn’t know what to say because we didn’t think she could understand us, and we certainly couldn’t understand her. She just walks around and walks up to cars and sometimes sits on the curb in the shade. Sometimes she sits too close to the […]
Please Don’t Negate My Gratitude With Your Attitude
Why do we do it? What’s wrong with us? Someone says “THANK YOU,” and we look at them and say … “eh, it was nothing.” In a world where there seems to be very little appreciation, it’s a shame when someone expresses appreciation and we don’t even honor it. Rarely do we intend to be rude, that’s […]
How Do You Know If You Are Enough?
There’s a great story that has been told and retold many times about a little boy walking along the beach and there are starfish all over. The little boy, one by one puts the starfish back into the ocean, out of the sun. An older man is near the boy, I don’t recall if he was walking with […]