One Million Acts of Kindness — A Lifetime Goal
by Shelly Kneupper Tucker on January 15, 2010
Kindness. Do you think that the trait of kindness is innate, or is it something that we “learn?” I’m not sure that everyone is born with it, but I think that most people can learn to be kind … although it takes practice. By practicing simple acts of kindness, I think we can teach our children the trait by example. Kindness is my subject for this Only The Good Friday.
What do y’all consider an “act of kindness?” Bob Votruba says it can be as simple as “a smile, holding a door for a stranger, letting a driver proceed ahead of you.” It could also be big, like volunteering for a local charitable organization, taking cans to the food bank or clothing to the Salvation Army … or starting a national movement called “One Million Acts of Kindness.” That’s what Mr. Votruba is doing. He is trying to get people to set a goal of performing one million acts of kindness in their lifetime. Continue reading
It's Raining Cheerios
I don't know if you can see it, but the falling objects are supposed to be cheerios. Cheerio sounds like a happy word to me, so I thought to do something happy. Balloons and the color yellow represent happy things to me, so that's why I use them.
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Babies in the Movies
I’m not sure how to tell you this, but movies are kind of a big deal.
As I wiled away life during pregnancy, I couldn’t help but think of every baby reference across my history of couchtime. They’d just come to me. I’d be shuffling my belly from the bedroom to the bathroom and remember Mrs. Mott and that turtle trimmed nursery. When discussing names, I wanted someone to suggest “baby fish mouth” and how it was sweeping the nation. When Michael and I exposed our utter fear about how life might e after baby, I remembered how Holly Hunter reminded Nicholas Cage that “Evrythang’s CHAEEnged.” At some point in my birth, I pictured someone yelling: But I dont know nothin’ about birthin’ babies! And afterwards, for a random stranger to say, a la Frances MacDormand that Scarlett was: ”an angel straight from heaven”. But most of all, when people would ask how it felt to have a baby inside my stomach, I wanted to respond: “You know in alien, when that dude was in that guy’s stomach? It kinda feels like that.”
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Waving at you wildly from New York,
