Overcome obstacles to sharing kindness "We need to look beyond ourselves and create a new world of love, forgiveness, kindness, compassion, integration and love." A big hindrance to achieving ... Conan O-Brien exits with humility and truth Hard work and kindness are biblical, while cynicism, regardless of the definition you use, is not. Sarcasm, negativity, and scorn do not produce fruit for ... Hairdresser brings kindness, care to quake victims Claudia Martinez volunteers at a hospital in the Dominican Republic fixing the hair of Haiti's quake victims. The 31-year-old Dominican says she's restoring a bit of beauty and humanity to people who have lost everything and survived deplorable conditions.Martinez shows up every day with a basket filled with brightly-colored elastic bands, petroleum jelly and a comb to braid patients' hair. Her aim: to make people feel "clean and a little bit better."She doesn't understand the Creole spoken by the injured Haitians because she speaks Spanish. She says she communicates by smiling and gesturing.Sometimes, she says, patients smile back through the pain.%@AP Links... Random acts of kindness So Ryan, thank you once again for your kindness. And cheers and Happy New Year to you!Michelle Ramos PellerinSeats formother-to-beDespite all the claims that common courtesy is often lacking, I was fortunate to run into some courteous strangers when I visited Winnipeg on the first weekend in December. Anyone who's ever gone to Cora's on Waverly Street on a Saturday morning could probably attest that it's not a good time to be there if you're not willing to wait a while. However, I couldn't stay away from one of my favourite restaurants, even though I was eight months pregnant and very heavy on my feet. Of course, the entrance was packed when we got there, but another wai... Author launches heart warming inspiring fictional novel – A Life transformed by Kindness by Joan Dean 2010-01-23 22:25:00 - Author, Joan Dean releases a touching inspiring fictional story with an imaginative plot. In this work of fiction, Joan Dean warms the ... Thank you for Christmas party A well deserved thank you to Steve Cook and the Kiwanis Sunrisers for the wonderful Christmas party they presented to the Special Education classes at Al ... The kindness of strangers Another random act of kindness happened when I went to get a phone. After some error, the kind Argentine woman working at the store not only fixed the problem, but put ten extra pesos on my phone, which gave me more minutes. We high-fived. In the cab home, I related to an old Argentine ex-navy cab driver my plans to go to Patagonia. He pulled over and took out a huge book all about Patagonia for me to read during my journey. Turns out, he is also a bookseller. This made for a pleasant taxi ride because he gave me advice about the area. In my two-and-a-half days in Buenos Aires, I have been on the receiving end of many kindnesses from strangers, and it has made my experience i... Kindness rewarded at awards ceremony Andy Matsko/Staff Photo Schuylkill County commissioners Chairwoman Mantura M. Gallagher ... Kindness For Killers January 22, 2010: Still tied down chasing individual Taliban and al Qaeda in Swat, South Waziristan and elsewhere in the tribal territories, the army says it will not advance further for at least six months. This allows the Taliban to reestablish themselves in villages along the Afghan border. But the army will raid, with gunships or fighter-bombers, terrorist bases in North Waziristan, or elsewhere in the tribal areas. So far, six months of fighting have killed about 2,000 Pakistani soldiers, and many more Taliban. About 100,000 troops (out of 960,000 in the armed forces, about a third of them paramilitary) were involved in the tribal territories fighting. Pakistan is still fixated on war w... Kindness toward others not limited to religion I am saddened by the lack of human kindness in the letter as I am saddened by the endless political maligning in newspapers and talk shows and by endless TV ...