I would have totally missed, for yet another year, knowledge of National World Kindness Week, November 10-17, had I not been still carrying around my November issue of Science of Mind magazine.
Today is December 1, yes, but I knew that there was so much rich content (as there is in every issue, and often there are articles that ‘speak’ to me more directly than others) yet to be read that I didn't want to put the magazine aside until ‘whenever.’ So I just flipped to the last page and there it was: “World Kindness Week” promoted by the World Kindness Movement (www.worldkindness.org) and the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation (www.actsofkindness.org).
Don’t you love it?
Just this past Thanksgiving Day Thursday, Oprah’s program (apparently a repeat from October 2006: http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/slideshow2_ss_challenge) showcased individuals who’d been selected to receive $1,000.00 which they were to use to help someone in need.
The ways in which the individuals gave their respective $1,000 ranged from treating a group to a sporting event outing to, for parents of seriously ill children hospitalized in Kapi'olani Medical Center in Honolulu, the purchase of four plane tickets so that they might visit their children.
Today is December 1, yes, but I knew that there was so much rich content (as there is in every issue, and often there are articles that ‘speak’ to me more directly than others) yet to be read that I didn't want to put the magazine aside until ‘whenever.’ So I just flipped to the last page and there it was: “World Kindness Week” promoted by the World Kindness Movement (www.worldkindness.org) and the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation (www.actsofkindness.org).
Don’t you love it?
Just this past Thanksgiving Day Thursday, Oprah’s program (apparently a repeat from October 2006: http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/slideshow2_ss_challenge) showcased individuals who’d been selected to receive $1,000.00 which they were to use to help someone in need.
The ways in which the individuals gave their respective $1,000 ranged from treating a group to a sporting event outing to, for parents of seriously ill children hospitalized in Kapi'olani Medical Center in Honolulu, the purchase of four plane tickets so that they might visit their children.
There were instances, too, wherein an initial act of generosity caught fire and spread to others:
- Whereas the airline initially provided tickets for a handful of parents who were separated from their sick children, that airline wound up providing an additional 40 free tickets, so that even more parents were able to fly in to see their children;
- The original $1,000 to be given to a beleaguered family mushroomed to $70,000 as others added to the pot, in a sort of explosion of kindnesses being “paid forward.” ...
There were many other instances, too, and they all just knocked me out.
I appreciate these constant reminders that pop up for me. They reset my intention to attain and maintain a consciousness, daily and moment by moment, to commit random acts of kindness and, for good measure, maybe even a couple of senseless acts of beauty.
I (grandly) wish that each act would be large and life-altering.
For starters, though, I'll just try to act and to give from the kinder, gentler side of me with the expectation that over time this will broaden and will become more intuitive than intentional.
I appreciate these constant reminders that pop up for me. They reset my intention to attain and maintain a consciousness, daily and moment by moment, to commit random acts of kindness and, for good measure, maybe even a couple of senseless acts of beauty.
I (grandly) wish that each act would be large and life-altering.
For starters, though, I'll just try to act and to give from the kinder, gentler side of me with the expectation that over time this will broaden and will become more intuitive than intentional.
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