Everyday Kindness

Like most of life, the everyday kindness challenge is growing into an odd existential journey. In living my day, I wonder, am I doing this out of kindness or simply because I want to check a kind act off my list. I question my own narcissism (”Why would anyone care what I [...]

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Harlekwin created these beautiful Everyday Kindness buttons for our weblogs.  Feel free to post it on your weblog.  Free free to post one or both to tell your readers that you have taken this challenge.

 
 
Please link to our little weblog!

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I thought you might be interested in what people are doing in our Everyday Kindness world.
Coco, who has a new format up, took the time to pray for people at pray about. Janet at Fond of Snape made her father an apple pie even though she doesn’t like it. Vixen has created a [...]

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I did a lot of small things today.  I said I would take Rosie out so that D. could sleep an extra half hour.  Then I actually took Rosie to the park.  I didn’t scream at the milkman (yes, Denver still has milkmen) when he wanted to go over all the forms while I stood [...]

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Today, my act of kindness was to meet a friend after he visited his fifteen year old daughter in the hospital.  Given that I’m still a bit sick, the challenge was to simply be present.  I’m glad I went.

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Today, act of kindness you might think is a little odd.  Because today, my act of kindness was to be honest to two people who have bullied me in the past.
Both people have been incredibly rude and thoughtless bordering on abusive.
The usual pattern of things is that they are rude.  When I ask for an [...]

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I planned on taking some warm home baked cinnamon rolls to my neighbors as my act of kindness. They have had house guests for almost three weeks and I thought they could use a new influence.
When I arrived, they were in their pajamas.  I played on the floor with their young boys, ate a pink [...]

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Today marks the first day in my kindness challenge. I committed to doing one small act of kindness every day during 2008. Eleven courageous bloggers also took up the challenge. During the next year, I will keep a blog of my journey and hopefully others will join in.
My original goal was to hold myself [...]

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