Friday, September 5, 2014

Sweet Kindness

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
― Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Most times, at the end of each day, I think about kindness and how I experienced it that day.  Today, kindness came in the form of sweets.

A friend of mine called me this afternoon.  "I have a surprise for you," she said.  It seems that someone at her job had received a gift that required being eaten fairly quickly  a tin of one of my favorite cookies, a Peruvian delicacy.  My friend does not care for them, so she volunteered to take them for her friend who does.

Later in the evening, a friend texted to see if I was at our regular Friday night pizza place.  She came by on her way out of town with giant jars of Nutella for my children.

The sweets are an incredible treat, especially for those of us with a sweet tooth.  But the real kindness is in the thoughtfulness that brought the sweets to us.

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