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Random Acts of Kindness
Posted by JenniferN | 12 October 2010 | Comments (5)
As a surprise to the entire audience attending Sunset Boulevard on Friday the 24th -Umpqua Private Bank passed out chocolates and hosted platters of yummy cookies during intermission. A very thoughtful gift to make a sweet night out even sweeter!!!
Have you had the opportunity to surprise and delight someone with a random act of kindness recently? Do Tell.
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It feels funny to “boast” like this, but if it promotes others to help… I am blessed at this stage in my life not to be poor, so sometimes I just give people that I am sure don’t have much money $5, $10, or $20. The gas station attendant, a woman pushing a stroller in the rain, another woman washing up in the library bathroom. It could have bought me something that wouldn’t make me any happier, but instead it let these folks know there are people who care.
@Kathy: You’re an extremely generous woman, and I applaud you for helping out your neighbor. Those boys may have been unlucky in the parents they were given, but you could be one of those influences that changes their lives for the better. Thanks for making the world a better place.
Recently purchased jackets, shoes, socks, and sweatpants for three tween boys in North Portland who live next to my daughter and her family in very squalid conditions. One boy who wears a size 11 shoe was wearing my grandson’s size 5 flip flops to school. I’m so mad at their parents or lack of parenting.
I knew there was a family from Hood River who have sold their apples and pears at a stand in my Hollywood(NE Portland) neighborhood for years. Last weekend was there first weekend to come this year(they’ve been coming for over 20 years!) Last Sunday was miserable weather, pouring down rain and muggy.
I made some warm cheese danish and a thermos of coffee for them. And I bought my 40 pounds of apple and pears and went home. The family ate all the danish in minutes. They provide our neighborhood with the great fruit at reasonable prices. The neighbors in turn make pie and crisps and cobblers for their families. It’s a lovely service they provide. Our little neighborhood smells so sweet after they’ve come in from Hood River with their fabulous farm.
Leaving my Community Garden plot with a couple pints of just-picked raspberries, I noticed a teen-age girl foraging for said berries among some canes poking through the chain link fence from another garden. Thinking how I had too many berries to consumer fresh and how much she would likely enjoy them, I caught up with her and offered her one of my pints. Her face lit up. We should never pass up an opportunity to show even a stranger that kindness exists for them in this world.
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