| I am a sentimental human being. I cry at | | | | Reading it mademe think. How many times do we |
| funerals. Normal. But I even cry at weddings, | | | | think to say to the bag boy who carried our |
| and I had two wonderful marriages. I guess | | | | groceries out to the car "Thanks. You were a |
| you could say I loved them to death since | | | | big help." If it was hot out today, did you |
| both of them preceded me in death. | | | | think to offer your mail carrier a glass of |
| | | | cool water to drink? If you played golf |
| I was reading an email from Simple Truths on | | | | today, did you think to give your caddie a |
| the computer that lead me to their website | | | | pat on the back AND a smile for a job well |
| about a boy with Downs Syndrome who made a | | | | done. It wasn't his fault you boogied that |
| lot of customers in a store happy with his | | | | hole on the ninth. |
| acts of kindness. Yes, I cried when I read | | | | |
| the story and I'm crying as I write this. I | | | | How long has it been since you invited an |
| told you I am sentimental. | | | | elderly neighbor to church with you? The next |
| | | | time you bake cookies why not share them with |
| The story was told by Barbara Glanz, and as I | | | | a shut-in? Do you have a neighbor in a |
| perused the rest of the website ( ) I noticed | | | | convalescent home? How long since you visited |
| Barbara had a book available "The Simple | | | | and caught them up with neighborhood news? |
| Truths of Appreciation" and right then I had | | | | |
| an inspiration or as some people would call | | | | Those of us who are well or well cared for |
| it an ah-hamoment. I picked up the phone and | | | | tend to forget the forgotten, the |
| ordered the book for my best friend in | | | | unfortunate, the lonely, the poor (not |
| appreciationof all the little things she does | | | | necessarily in money), the sick and the sick |
| for me every day. | | | | at heart. A smile, a handshake and afew |
| | | | pleasant words might make the difference |
| The book came today, and of course I had to | | | | between daylight and darkness for those |
| read it first before I give it to her, | | | | forgottens in our life. |