kinder shares a bowl filled with her red loose parts treasure salad
(it’s a secret recipe)
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“the heart that gives, gathers.”
-tao te ching
Feb18
Category Archives: kindness
Jan14
moved.
today a ladybug stopped by our classroom veterinary clinic
the kinder docs looked at it closely with a magnifying glass
decided it might be having trouble flying
after much discussion, more close looks, a few notes on a paper, a phone call,
and a blood pressure check of one of the other docs
their good care and magic worked
and the ladybug flew away home.
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“true compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.”
-daniel goleman
Dec26
still standing.
The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner died this year. The darker one is a younger male who lost his partner two years ago. Biologists have followed them as they meet every night to comfort each other. They stand for hours together watching the lights in Melbourne. Photographer Tobias Baumgaertner captured this image of two widowed fairy penguins looking over the Melbourne skyline. It has won an award in Oceanographic magazine’s Ocean Photography Awards 2020.
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“at the end of the day, the ones who really matter
will be the ones standing next to you watching the sun set
and assuring you that it will rise again in the morning.”
-ash sweeney
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story credit: natureblowsmymind
Oct24
simple gifts.
carried from home to school
clutched in chubby hand
tiny simple gift
brings precious beauty
to a teacher’s heart.
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“sometimes, said pooh, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
-a.a. milne – winnie the pooh
Jul19
simple kindness.
a surprise gift to the neighborhood dogs
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“the simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
-mahatma gandhi
Apr14
how to be.
This sculpture was built by the Irish people in their own country to honor the American Choctaw Indian tribe.
They were grateful because the Choctaw people sent money to Ireland
when they learned that Irish people were starving due to the potato famine.
And that is a lesson in how to be a person in this world.
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“Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do,
but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.”
-Khalil Gibran
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source: open homes, open hearts u.s., karen waters
Mar29
good fortune.
‘a friend will bring you a big surprise soon’
– a surprise good fortune left for me today by my friend at the car wash
“acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.”
-stephen king
Mar8
kinder.
going the extra mile
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“always be a little kinder than necessary.”
-james m. barrie (author of peter pan)
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ann arbor townies 2021
Feb28
book fairies.
how sweet to find this book
sitting outside on the window ledge of a downtown store
on a sunny saturday
just waiting for someone
to pick it up and take it home to read.
gratitude to the book fairies.
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“books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. books are humanity in print.”
-barbara w. tuchman
Feb13
crumb.
i will never forget
it was a friday
show and tell time
sitting on the floor
they took turns going around our circle
each child sharing their special thing
other children kindly looking at it
showing appreciation for what the others shared
then we came to n
who clearly had forgotten to bring something
yet said “i have something too”
he proudly walked around the circle
both hands together
gently cradling a single crumb
that he had picked up off our floor
showing each child
talking about his crumb
as the others
were all so kind
smiling at his crumb
complimenting him on his crumb
accepting the crumb as his special thing
without judging his crumb
my favorite show and tell special thing of all time.
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“the wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.”
-eric hoffer
I didn't have my glasses on.... 