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Share the Kindness

Kindness
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.
Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.
Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952
www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/kindness?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq5...

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on; Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on; Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears, Til in Heaven the deed appears - Pass it on.
Henry Burton

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Publilius Syrus

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Taken on: January 13, 2016

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Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S1, f/5.6, 1/750 sec, 149.3mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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ISO:	100
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