Community kindness helps law enforcers cope with tragic loss in their ranks I also feel a deep sense of responsibility on behalf of my colleagues to say "thank you" for the outpouring of kindness and support so many of you have shown to the men and women in your community who wear a badge. Your support is not only deeply meaningful and appreciated, it is critically important to maintaining the bond between the police and the people we serve. During the past month, I've been frequently asked how the recent series of police tragedies has impacted members of law enforcement. The closest I can come to describing how many of us feel is to ask that you remember how you felt in the weeks and months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It's like that. Kindness snaps shopper out of possible nightmare A stranger's kindness snapped a Livingston County woman out of a possible shopping nightmare Saturday afternoon. Genoa Township resident Leith Baker said ... Man walks from NY to New Orleans relying on kindness By the time Garth Poorman arrived in Bay St. Louis he already walked more than 1000 miles to find out if it was really possible to live on the kindness of ... Kindness is all around us I would like to tell you of an act of kindness and a lesson in humility I learned. That there are really caring, thoughtful people around us and we can become one.Also to say "Thank you" to a stranger. Being that this is the time of the year when everyone is bustling about with their shopping, chores or lost in their own little world, thinking of what needs to be done next. There still is "good will." On one of those days of my own, I was shopping in the local 99cents Only Store, standing in line with my items, mentally counting my money, when the lady in front of me and I began exchanging thoughts about the time of year: organic diets and how we are all watching our pennies this... Habitat Volunteers Have A Brush With Kindness The program is called Brush with Kindness. Using volunteers and some donations, Habitat can help low-income homeowners with critical repair projects in the ... Snake Repays the Kindness of Man Who Saved It? ... mother's electric blanket was smoking. Experts say a snake is not smart enough for this feat but Yu is convinced that Long Long was repaying his kindness. Star News. Elk River, Dayton, Ramsey, Otsego, Rogers, Zimmerman, Minnesota, news, sports, community, business, obituaries, activities, information, hi... 1 called “1000 Acts of Random Kindness.” Her idea is to have 1000 acts of kindness committed and recorded by the end February. It's also her hope to have ... The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA It's scary that in 2009 area residents might harbor such fear that they forsake basic human kindness. It's scary that in the 21st century a county deals ... We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, just add scotch All right. Here it is Jan. 3 and now I can drink again. I don't drink on New Year's Eve because as any trained professional knows, it's amateur night. There is more porcelain embraced on New Year's Eve and more paper hats and poppers rendered inoperable by toilet water on that special night than all the birthdays, bar mitzvahs, weddings and brises combined. New Year's parties are the place that all the cheap champagne ever manufactured goes to die. And when it does the drumming heard between the ears of the beholder is akin to proposing to your once-in-a-lifetime loved one in the bell tower of Notre Dame Cathedral. New Year's Eve is the only time all year you can sing "Auld Lange Syne"...

A simple act of kindness But in telling her story, Mary Marino reminds us there is still great "joyousness" to be found in our world, through simple acts of human kindness. ...