Stories of Kindness from Around the World

Ripples Of Kindess

Hello fellow kindspringers! i can feel all your ripples here in florida! and I thank you.
I have been delivering meals to some that aren't feeling well so I bring them their food. there is a charge here so to save them dollars also.
I took a lady to the doctor about a half an hour away and of course brought her home. :)
I helped a lady that is legally blind to fill our her mail in vote. and the funny part is I had to read how to do it because I had never done it.
I took a friend in the wheel chair to the dining room and to her room.
I ran to the pharmacy for her medicines.
Have a great day and keep those ripples going and coming. :) i love the ride. :)

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Delightful Letter Received

Yesterday, we received a letter from the boy in India who attends the school for hearing impaired and he's done so well with his education this year. He wanted to thank us for supporting him. It made me cry!

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A Bit Of Kind Shopping

A bit of kind shopping :-)
I saw this sign so I had to come in. I sometimes like looking around in charity shops, you can find some hidden treasures, and guess what? I had recently had a worker in our house who admired our cafetiere and said he wanted to buy one for his family. He couldn't find one that he would be able to afford so was a little disappointed. This was 4 months ago. I now found one even better than ours, second hand but in perfect conditions, AND for a very good price! So I got it for him as a gift. I'm sure he'll do more work for us in the near future but even if he doesn't I know his brother is working for a friend of mine so I could give it to him. I'm sure he'll be delighted.

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🏑 A Wonderful Block To Live On

❀️ Kindness Opportunities….

🐢 One neighbor asked me if I would look in on their dog one day this coming week when they will be away from home for several hours. He’s a rescue dog who has been with them for many years…he came from a puppy mill with trauma issues. They healed him with lots of LOVE & PATIENCE. Now he’s a senior with a few mobility & other issues. Butchie is the cutest, sweetest little guy πŸ’• 🐢 πŸ’•. Happy to help.

πŸ’§ Another neighbor asked if I’d water his veggie garden while they are away this weekend. Happy to πŸ‘. They are our wonderful across the driveway neighbors of many years.

πŸ“š Dropped off a few books to another neighbor who is a bookaholic Ike I am.

All these people have been kind to me & my husband over the years. We are blessed to live on a block full of kind folks πŸ™

Grateful.

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Delivering Food To Less Fortunate

My wife has been delivering meals twice a week to less fortunate kids living in clusters. She has worked out a win-win model with nearby Google's office where they make delicious lunch for their employees but always have a huge left over. My wife takes food containers to Google in the afternoon, gets the food and quickly goes to nearby clusters to serve hot meals while smiling faces are waiting. She shares the photos with Google and make them happy. She then comes home smiling and makes me happy too :)

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Checkout Kindness Costs Nothing.

This morning whilst shopping at the supermarket, I joined one of the queues to check out. There were two tills and the progress on both of them was slow. Eventually, the customer in front of me was about to move to the checkout and I noticed an older lady behind with three items in my basket so I told her to go ahead of me. The customer in front of me, said 'You can go in front of me too!. The lady thanked us both and I said, 'It costs nothing to be kind' and the customer in front of me agreed.

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Cheering On My Good Friend

One of my longtime close friends has been home recovering from a broken leg after a recent fall. 🦡🏻

Although we don’t live near to one another we are in touch by phone & iPad a few times every day.

😊I send her funny graphics to get her laughing & encouragements.

πŸ’ Sent her a few gifts…a funny bell she can use to let her husband know she needs some help and a cozy throw with healing words on it,
Another gift she received from us just yesterday is a funny adult coloring book & Crayola fine line markers, to help her pass some time as she’s basically homebound at this stage of recovery.

Her husband is taking good care of her & is cooking & cleaning and more ❀️

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From Facebook Trooper’s Kindness

From Facebook “I was driving up 75, and saw the trooper in the turnout...checked my speed, oh I'm good. A few minutes later, I see a dog in the ditch by one of the signs for exit 20. She looked bad. I was in the left lane, heading to an appointment, and was torn. I decided I would go back southbound and risk a ticket by going to the turnout. I turned in and the trooper was still there! Yay! He rolled down his window and said "yep! I'm here" to which i told him about the dog and I didn't want a ticket, but if I could help that dog, it was fine by me. He just asked where the dog was and was on his way! I followed and we found her, still there, panting like she was fixing to die. That trooper dumped his jug out and fashioned a water bowl for her. ... Read Full Story >>

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πŸ’ͺ Hard Workers

Crew here today doing some heavy-duty labor outside our home..I went out with some liquid refreshment….it’s a warm sunny day here β˜€οΈ

They worked for a neighbor friend down the block yesterday and she put out a cooler filled with Gatorade, water & soda.

🍦 Didn’t have any ice cream in the house tho πŸ˜‰

Appreciate these hard workers! πŸ’ͺ

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Sunday Love πŸ’•

❀️ Had fun today with kindness…giving some & receiving some …..

πŸ’§ Saw delivery guy heading our way….ran into our kitchen & grabbed a cold drink of water for him just in time to get back as he was about to ring our bell…he handed me the package, I handed him the water…he was so surprised, lol…no words exchanged, just big smiles shared. Loved it!

πŸ«– Surprised by friend ringing our bell with a big box of assorted tea bags she knows I like. Got to hang out a bit & pet her beautiful dog who loves to be petted & I love petting him ❀️ 🐢

🐢. Dog across our driveway comes out on their back porch and often  barks for me to come out…he knows I bring him a dog biscuit…I heard his call today & didn’t disappoint him, lol. He’s the cutest, sweetest dog & looks just like one of our beloved long-gone dogs..I just love him so. ❀️

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Kindness At Manav Sadhnat

Kindness at Manav Sadhna

Today I visited Manav Sadhna at their New location It is a spacious, nice and very quiet place. They stayed at Gandhi Ashram for about 30 years. It is being renovated.

I gave them unfinished bookmarks with Gandhiji's quotes and other as shown in image that will be finished by students.

I also gave them books and quote cards.

I talked to the teachers and staff about positive thinking. and my experiences about it. Image shows it.

I told Fatemah story also.

Image of the kids is from the internet.

I gave them info about a color printer that I will be buying for them.

They are doing such a nice job of training kids to make greeting cards and other things.

Mr. Y wanted to give me a ride home but on my repeated request, he took me to the bus stop. I am grateful to him.

More information can be read in the following link.

https://atlasofthefuture.org/project/manav-sadhna/

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Cool Evening Walk

The heat has me walking in the cool of the evening and last night I went by two of my favorite houses— they have incredible front yard gardens of flowers and veggies. It paused to admire the gladiolus at one and the couple came out and I was able to tell them how much pleasure their flowers brought me. They are very shy and got big smiles. And then the second house had its person outside, too with her corgi/german shepherd dog. Told her how impressed I was with her veggies, her psychedelic bee t-shirt and her fabulous dog. She also got a huge grin.
Here is a hot squirrel on a phone wire by our yard. He has water down below and some snacks for when he wants.


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Dear Maggie

My mom had to go to urgent care last Friday. Her cousin Maggie took her. Maggie lives nearby, and I'm over an hour away by car. Maggie also does my mom's wash every week. Mom is fiercely independent. Every offer of help is refused. Maggie pretty much forced her to go to urgent care because Mom's face at their weekly breakfast was beet red. She learned she was having a COPD attack. She's okay now but very weak. She has a heart problem too and needs to see a specialist next week. All my offers to come and stay are refused. Frustrating, but I admire her spunk. And I'm so grateful for Maggie. She went shopping yesterday for my mom. Maggie also takes care of her late husband's brother and takes him to doctor's appointments and shopping. He's been very sick. She's an angel of kindness.

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Clean Out

So last week we cleaned out our kitchen and pantry, and we found lots of unexpired foods that we no longer want. So I donated them to a local food pantry yesterday.

I also cleaned out my linen closet, and I donated the extra blankets and sheets to the animal shelter that had put out a call for them.

My son's room was a mess, too. When we reorganized that, I got three boxes full of nice things to donate to charity.

And I still have more cleaning to do.

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Donating For The Children's Hospital In Ukraine

Two days ago, Monday 8 July, Russia bombed the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine. Suffering a direct hit, the surgery and oncology departments were completely destroyed. Four children and two adults, including a 30 year old pediatric nephrologist, were killed in the attack.

Within hours United24, the official fundraising platform for the government of Ukraine, started a new fundraiser for the hospital. With an initial goal of $250,000 USD the campaign has far surpassed its own goals, and has now raised over $500,000 USD.

Right after receiving the email about the fundraiser I made a donation. More information can be found here: https://donorbox.org/okhmatdyt

Any donation helps and makes a tremendous impact towards the care of these children. Even sharing the story and creating awareness makes a huge difference.

Π Π°Π·ΠΎΠΌ ΠΌΠΈ ΡΠΈΠ»ΡŒΠ½Ρ– <3

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Veras Birthday

i have returned. we went to see her sister Vera in the nursing home. I missed her birthday but my son had bought her a McDonald cake. she really liked it. and we left the rest of it for the other residents and staff. I asked first if i could leave it and they said it would make people happy and of course i told them that is our mission. Have a wonderful day! :)

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Kindness At The Utthan picnic

Kindness at the Utthan Picnic After many years I had been to a picnic in India on July 6, 2024. My very first picnic with more than 100 people and Utthan Family members as well. Three-hour ride each way was very comfortable. Some members were dancing in the bus. It was a very long day. but I did not get tired. My battery was recharged. We started from Utthan by bus at 7.30 a.m. and returned around 9 p. m. I am gratful to Mr. N of Utthan who helped me find rikshaw leading me with care. After reaching “Swarg Maru Gaam” (It mean Heaven is my village), some members got horse ride and bullock cart ride. I abstain, for, I didn’t want to be a part of animal cruelty. Weather was very comfortable. Couple of thunder storms were forecast but what we got was sprincles for a few seconds. I thank Sai ... Read Full Story >>

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I ❀️ Our Neighbor Friends

😊 Reasons to smile on our block:

🧢 How cool….another opportunity to give one of my crochets away today….found out neighbor friend was going to a big family gathering for the 4th of July this morning & when she told me one of her relatives who’d be there has a 1 year old baby I was able to wrap up a baby blanket I had made a while ago & give it to her to take with her, after she let me know she’d love it 😊.
This is why I like to have a few crochet “extras” on hand πŸ‘

πŸ“• When I dropped off the blanket she handed me a gift bag with a lovely tin of high quality British tea πŸ«–

πŸ“• I had given her some books the other day , along with some Yogi Tea bags I like 😊

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Kindness At The Toy Store


Kindness At The Toy Store.

This Saturday July 6, I am joining in with Utthan family's picnic for the first time. To have more fun, I was looking for a toy store. After walking for about an hour, I finally found one. I bought some Rings, Balls and Frisbee. as shown in the image. They gave me discount on my request.

I told cashier and an employee about noble work of Utthan - training mentally challenged people to make files, fancy paper bags etc. I talked about Kind Spring also. I told them, Fatemah story - a quote card changed her life, Intense positive thinking story and my experiences thinking positively and getting positive results.

I gave them quote cards, talked about my quote card project.

I also gave them a booklet in Gujarati about positive thinking.

I am grateful to Sri Sathya Sai Baba for all the opportunities sending my way and His help and guidance.to manifest them.

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Buying A Boy A Pair Of Shoes

Last month I bought a 15 year old boy some school shoes. He and his friends hang round a shopping mall quite often where they low-level beg for change. They all dropped out of school after covid. I rarely give them change, but I do talk to them. And I give them small jobs sometimes, like cleaning up the sidewalks in exhange for pay. That way they can get food with dignity.

I've been nagging him for two years to try to get back into school. I'd previously told him that if he was serious, I'd help him. After I'd given up that he would put in the effort, he finally surprised me by telling me that he'd enrolled again but they wouldn't allow him without a uniform and black shoes.

I walked with him to the shop immediately and get him a new pair. I haven't seen him on the streets since, so I hope that means he is now attending.

I hardly remember anything I did last month, except those shoes. I'll forget this year of my life too, in time. But probably not the small thing that happened in it - buying a child a pair of schools so that hopefully he can walk towards a better future.

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