Stories of Kindness from Around the World

Feels Good To Thank

Still finding my way in the website and glad I finally found where to post my story for today.

I wrote a short note to someone who led a class where only 2 participants had showed up. It was a great class though. I wrote to tell her some of the cool things that have happened to me since the clsss,  which I believe are because of what she led.

It made me feel good to do that.

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  • Jul 23, 2023
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Kind Acts During The Day

Kindness filled days:

While driving, let lots of cars cut in front of me.
Allowed walkers to cross in front of me while stopped at a stop sign.
Complimented a lady on her dress. She proceeded to tell me she had it custom made because she loves retro 50 dresses.
Went to the YMCA to get back into yoga ..self kindness.
While there the receptionist complimented me on my bracelets and jokingly said she'd be happy get one. We laughed, then I gave her one. So much more that I cannot recall.

But I sure felt good to be able to do chair yoga again.

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Kindness Meet

Kindness Meet On May 21st, 2023, I visited my cousin brother who is 94 years old. His elder daughter was taking care of him. He loved my visit to him. I love him too. I talked to them about intense positive thinking and Fatemah story and also had nice family talk to make them happy and get inspired. His elder daughter went out, his younger daughter came in. Later their friend and her husband join in. I gave quote cards. Talked about positive thinking and my experiences with it. I told them intense positive thinking story, Fatema story and Chinese lady's story whose love for her son and positive thinking brought her son out of coma whereas doctors declared that they can't do any better to bring her son out of coma after trying for six months. I told them that it is not me giving quote cards and talking but God ... Read Full Story >>

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📚 Sharing Uplifting Books To Hospital Shelf💕


“Looks like you found some good books,” Jessie, the library director observed, as she was about to total the sale.

“I do enjoy your book sale room,” I replied, "and I’m donating these to the hospital’s free shelf, so I tried to choose books with a positive and uplifting message.”

Jesse put her hands on the stack of books, looked up at me and said, “Mindy, please just take these books, with our appreciation, no charge.”

That’s the beautiful thing about kindness and knowledge, the more you give, the more you inspire and encourage, the more it ripples out in such lovely ways! 📚

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Stamp Our Hunger 🍎


🍎 In gratitude for the mail carrier's food drive today, we filled a bag to leave by our rural PO box.

🍪 Volunteering at food bank and bringing a plate of chocolate chip cookies as an expression of thanks for fellow volunteers.

😊 Every day, there are countless ways to amp up the kindness, my friends! We just need to reach out, take action and DO. Why wait?

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Mother's Day Gifts

I was at my favorite garden center this morning, purchasing plants for the garden. The woman next to me in checkout also turned out to be parked next to me. As we were loading our cars (yes, loading :)), I complimented her on her choices. She told me that many of them were going to be gifts. A friend was planning a get-together this weekend and most of the attendees were Moms of a certain age. She was planning to give many of these plants to the women who were going to attend in honor of Mother's Day. Brilliant!

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Earth Kindness

Earth Kindness #20

Following on from our afternoon at the Coronation Cafe, the very next morning our team were out once again getting our hands dirty by planting ox-eye daisies all along one wall of the public park.
It happened that one of the ladies from our group also volunteers at the Kinross Potager Garden where they have been growing all manner of plants for around 30 years now. You can imagine how the ox-eye daisies must have come on in that time, bunching up, forming huges swathes of flowers. So it was high time that these were dug up, split and divided into clumps for planting elsewhere. Weren't we the lucky ones?
Poor Irene's car was filled to the brim with lush plants, but we soon emptied it and got them into the ground where they'll be far happier! I guess it'll be another month or so before they're tall enough to flower, but I promise to take a pic and show you all.

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Support The School Fees For Our Gardener's Kid

Our community gardener is a soft, gentle person. He has two school going kids who are going to a private school. He is unable to fund the school fees for one kid. My wife jumped in, talked to him and his wife to get more details. She told them that she will be glad to put in a word with the principal of a local government school where there are no fees and the school has smart technology facilities.
My gardener and his wife were unaware of such a school but the admission could be only available for the next year. My wife and I spoke and we decided to pitch in funding for the kid along with one of our neighbors for this year. Small help but the gardener is not one of the asking type so we had to really follow-up with him to understand what he is going through.

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Gave A Gift Certificate

Gave a gift certificate to a raffle supporting a small, local community radio station. The station manager was a lovely woman who came to my office and I am so glad to have met her!
Asteria, the gerbil, sez hi!


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Best students ever!

Every teacher says this but...I have the best students ever! Joelle greeted me with this piece of (vegan) pumpkin bread from Philz, where she works. You'll notice I've already had my share! If you've ever had this, you know how scrumptious it is:). Joelle and I have more conversations around being fellow vegans than we do calculus:).

And a senior wrote me a thoughtful thank you, offering me, as well as our mother earth, the best gift ever: she's working toward becoming a vegan! I can't think of a sweeter gift<3. Oh, and every teacher who says they have the best students...it's true<3<3<3.

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Once A Lifeguard, Always A Lifeguard. Saved A Life Yesterday!

Saved a life yesterday :)

I was relaxing at the apartment complex's pool yesterday evening when I saw something small swimming across the water. I got up and walked to the edge of the pool and noticed it was a chipmunk. I'm not sure how it got in the pool, but with no easy way out it surely would've drowned. With no basket nearby to fish it out I simply reached after it, gently grabbed it around the waist, and set it on the pool deck. The little thing was soaked, but scurried off away from the pool.

I was a lifeguard for quite a few years in high school and college, and now I can add 'chipmunk' to my list of beings I've pulled out of the water :)

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Helping Senior Citizens

Helped some senior citizens in getting medicines. They were unable to visit there. So, I took them to the hospital and helped them with check-up and medicine. They were very happy and relaxed. Their smile gave me inner joy and happiness.

Thanks to all of them.

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Earth Kindness #21

Earth Kindness #21 Earlier in the year we set out plans for a potential butterfly garden on an under-utilised area of greenspace right in the heart of the village. We drew up a plan showing our ideas and thought how we could go about them; a lot would depend on fundraising for us to buy wildflower turf. As it turned out, the Universe of course had other plans! While we waited to see if our funding would come through, Butterfly Conservation Scotland out of the blue, offered us enough wildflower mix seed to cover the whole of the area which we’d marked for this purpose on our plan. The problem was that the seed would have to be sown within the next fortnight, which also meant that the turf would have to be stripped back to bare earth before we could sow! So, I asked around for a machine to lift the turf, but no ... Read Full Story >>

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❤️ Thanks, Mom

🧶 Busy crocheting baby blankets…two new babies on the way :))

🙏What a joy to occupy myself this way. It’s a gift to myself as well as to another.

Grateful to Mom for teaching me how to crochet when I was a teenager ❤️

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Assorted Origami Creations!

How nice that a kind friend received my box of assorted origami creations to share! Not sure how many hours I put into their creation, but was worth it to realize how mindfully each will be given 🕊️.

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Grateful For What A Lovely Day It’s Been

🌈 LOVEly Monday…..

☀️ A sunny perfect weather day here in NYC…woke up to lots of birdsong 🎶 & our feral friends in our yard 🐈‍⬛ 💕 🐈

😊 There was a sweet smiley face notecard waiting for me on our front porch when I opened the door early morning to get the newspaper.  It  was from one of my neighbor-friends wishing me a lovely day...& a lovely day it's been :))

🕊 Was able to share peace doves with two delivery fellows …one bowed to me when he received it 🙏

💧 The mailman accepted my offer of water

🎁 I saved the best for last….some beautiful & thoughtful gifts arrived from far away kindness friends. They mean a lot to me & I am still smiling 🥰

🙏 Grateful

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Helping And Receiving Thankful Words

What a lovely afternoon! I want to share how happy I was earlier when my friend thanked me for helping her finish a power point presentation regarding her business plan. She gave me a call and promised to treat me to a meal next week. I agreed, even though I wasn't expecting anything in return when I helped her yesterday, I'm still happy she offered, showing how much she appreciated it. The feeling of gratefulness from others really inspires me to do my best to spread kindness to the world!

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Mother's Day Bag Lunches

Made bag lunches to distribute to anyone who needed to be fed---we walked all over the city as a family and gave them out and it was so good to see the smiles of folks who are used to being ignored. It was a mother's day tradition and I'm happy to keep going forever! So grateful.

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Happy Mother's Day!!!

For Mother's Day today...speaking of which, Happy Mother's Day to all of you out there<3...I am in charge of the meal for the three mothers whom we'll be hosting today.
So yesterday I spent most of the day prepping. The focaccia bread is ready for the oven, creme brulee is ready to be torched, and the corn+bean salad marinating in the fridge. All that's left to do is the pasta dish, which I will begin shortly. As a surprise, I made some peanut butter cups and chocolate-covered strawberries last night:). And as is always the case nowadays, everything was made with kindness to the animals, using no parts of them<3.

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Gifted Crocheted Blanket To Newborn

❤️ Some do’s:

🧶 Walked over to our neighbor-friends with the blanket I crocheted for their newborn when I saw them sitting on their porch. They were surprised and thanked me with kind words and big smiles. Their little boy (toddler) came out & showed me a pretty round disc with the words “ 2 weeks” (the age of his sister) on it…proud big brother ❤️

Encouraged two friends today who needed uplift. It seemed to help them.🙏

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