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Friday, November 13, 2020

World Kindness Day 2020

World Kindness Day November 13th 

Spread kindness wherever you go-its free and goes a long way.  

During the month of November and into December Ever Ready will post ideas to keep the kindness going right through 2020 into 2021.  
1. Donate to a local food pantry and/or thrift shop
2. Volunteer for a worthy cause
3. Start a gratitude journal-be good to yourself
4. Support and buy local whenever you can 
5. Share  a dinner with a neighbor or friend
6. Donate a coat
7. Thank a cashier for their service
8. Volunteer to drive someone who needs some extra help
9. Pay for someone’s meal
10. Thank a veteran
11. Show your gratitude to a loved one
12. Write a note of appreciation
13. Offer someone words of encouragement
14. Let someone else have the parking spot
15. Donate to Toys for Tots
16. Make someone a handmade gift
17. Help a neighbor put out their garbage cans curbside.
    18. Email or call an old friend
    19. Donate to a local rescue or animal shelter
    20. Thank your local police and firemen
    21. Thank your delivery drivers
    22. Be more courteous and patient driving 
    23. Let someone checkout before you
    24. Bake something for a friend or loved one
    25. Return someone’s cart for them
    26. Compliment a loved one
    27. Send flowers to someone
    28. Hold the door for someone
    29. Thank a health care worker
    30. Check on a neighbor-see if needs something  
    31. Shovel someone's sidewalk 
    "Kindness"
    by Naomi Shihab Nye
    Before you know what kindness really is
    you must lose things,
    feel the future dissolve in a moment
    like salt in a weakened broth.
    What you held in your hand,
    what you counted and carefully saved,
    all this must go so you know
    how desolate the landscape can be
    between the regions of kindness.
    How you ride and ride
    thinking the bus will never stop,
    the passengers eating maize and chicken
    will stare out the window forever.

    Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness
    you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
    lies dead by the side of the road.
    You must see how this could be you,
    how he too was someone
    who journeyed through the night with plans
    and the simple breath that kept him alive.

    Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
    you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
    You must wake up with sorrow.
    You must speak to it till your voice
    catches the thread of all sorrows
    and you see the size of the cloth.
    Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
    only kindness that ties your shoes
    and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread,
    only kindness that raises its head
    from the crowd of the world to say
    It is I you have been looking for,
    and then goes with you everywhere
    like a shadow or a friend.

    From "Words Under the Words: Selected Poems." Copyright © 1995 by Naomi Shihab Nye. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

    Diverse Children's Picture Books for World Kindness Day
    Kindness is the glue that binds us all together and here are some wonderful booklists to help reinforce that message for young people put together by Becky Flansburg. She is an author, freelance writer, and project manager for the non-profit online children’s literacy initiative, Multicultural Children’s Book Day.
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    1 comment:

    1. Thank you for this uplifting and encouraging post about kindness.

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