The Kindness of Strangers

This blog is is attempt to fulfill a promise made to a stranger 25 years ago. Spotting a broken down car on the side of rural highway in Upstate New York, a man who could have very easily kept on driving stopped to help me. After an entire afternoon of getting me on my way he accepted only a thank you and a promise that I would help someone else along the way. It is time I fulfilled that promise. I am making a commitment to be kind to a stranger at least once a day for a year.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Pennies for Kindness

Day 348

It recently came to my attention that my kid's school is having a penny drive for charity. I found out about it from the "virtual backpack," the place on the school website for family notices. What? I've been doing this kindness blog for almost a year now and NEITHER of my sons asked me for some pennies to donate? I had to hear about on the internet?

I'm not sure where I went wrong, but you can be sure that tonight each of them have a few pounds of pennies in their backpacks to take to school tomorrow.

3 comments:

Sarahrb1989March 17, 2011 at 11:24 PM
haha that's funny! Good one Betsy! Oh and thanks for the ideas :)
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AnonymousMarch 18, 2011 at 6:47 AM
Oh dear I thougth that was funny too...clyn
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mariaFebruary 3, 2012 at 9:49 AM
too bad you didn't know of the pennies drive, you could have done a lot about it, I'm sure.
what was the cause?
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