Thoughts on Life

Kindness is one of the most undervalued commodities – which is too bad because it doesn’t take much of it to turn the day around. I wonder if we overlook kindness because it’s so simple. What’s really involved? Someone needs something, we help. Someone feels low, we console. Someone trips, we catch them. There’s a need, we respond. Then the other person is grateful and relieved –and were happy knowing we could help. Kindness is a low- effort, high return exchange. Joan Duncan Oliver

It is a gift to be able to paint a particular picture or to carve a statue , and so to make a few things beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium from which we look. To affect the quality of the day – that is the highest of the arts. Henry David Thoreau