When I was a child, surrounded by the schizophrenics that made up my family, I read this book that was totally foreign to me. I don’t know where the book came from. I will tell you my crazy mother thought it was ‘stupid’ and threw it out. In the book, I saw a way of…
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Simply Kind Tuesdays: What can you do?
After an interaction with a begging child, garment maker and importer, 28 year old Kuku Arora meditated on how it was tolerated that his child would grow up in privilege and so many others were forced into a lifetime of begging. He and his wife decided to do something about it. Yes, it was hard. Yes, many…
Simply Kind Tuesdays: Kind to the earth.
I don’t really care if people caused global climate change or if it’s a ‘natural phenomena’. The entire debate is stupid. We are thoughtful, sentient beings capable of controlling our behavior. If we can reduce catastrophic global climate change, why wouldn’t we?? Tomorrow is the beginning of lent. As most of you know, my family was kicked…
Simply Kind Tuesdays : The problem with kindness.
The biggest problem with kindness is that you never really know what effect it had. This is the same problem with ‘paying it forward.’ You never know if someone did their three acts of paying it forward. You just never know. In a world that is so over focused on microwave moments and instant results,…
Simply Kind Tuesdays : Kindness on the face of a killer
There aren’t words for this type of kindness. Pure. Raw. Simple. Kindness. From a ruthless predator for no real reason. “And then I think she realized that I was this useless predator in her ocean probably going to starve to death…” I challenge each of us to show pure, raw, simple kindness today. Because more…
Apology of sorts
I’ve been missing from this blog. I’ve been missing from this blog for a while. I feel like I need to explain, apologize, beat my chest, and lay prostrate. But I don’t really have anything to say. I’ve been really overwhelmed. I don’t think I realized how overwhelmed I’ve been until I broke my ankle…
Simply Kind Tuesdays: What is the purpose of life?
“To give,” says Narayanan Krishnan. Mr. Krishnan is of the Brahmin caste in India. They are the upper class in Indian society. As such, a Brahmin is not supposed to acknowledge, touch, or interact with people of a lesser caste. And somehow, with centuries of culture weighing on his shoulders, Mr. Krishan feeds and nurtures…
Simply Kind Tuesdays : Week 52 : It's always possible.
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – H. H. Dalai Lama It’s been a year since I gave myself the challenge of writing about kindness once a week. Over the course of the year, other bloggers (Karin at Popping Bubbles, Remote Treehugger and others) have joined in. The meme has been featured on…
Simply Kind Tuesdays : Week 51 : Letting go
It’s funny, I don’t know how to start this blog post. Please bear with me. I have no talent for talking or writing about myself. I’ve spent the last ten days digging through Open Grove boxes, folders and files from our garage. Because our garage leaks, the papers are wet, molded and, when they get…