While reading one of my most favorite blogs in Blogland this morning,
I discovered that it is
Random Act Of Kindness Week !
The girls at Kind over Matter, Jenn and Amanda have a whole list of suggestions
for acts you can carry out and make the world a little kinder place.
(laughing buddha photo from flick'r)
One of my favorites is so very simple and it is one I learned from my Bubbie, my grandmother, when I was a little kid.
Bubbie would smile at everyone she met every day.
Simple, isn't it ?
And yet it is often rare these days....so sad.
What a difference it makes in your day when you share a smile with someone else a couple of times.
They are of course, contagious.
They are also free.
I have some new neighbors who just moved in across the street. I think I will make one of my acts of kindness this week to go over and introduce myself and maybe bring a some little goodies over. They used to do that all they time, you know, when someone joined a neighborhood. I think I am going to do my little part to bring the kindness back on my street...
As I was looking through my pics to find something for this post, I came across this picture of my mom and me last September. Don't you love it ?
It made me smile big and made my heart fill up with the love I have for my Sweet Mommy and also for our relationship.
Hmmmm...there is some nice fuel to get my kindness fires going...
Let's head out and go act kind !!!
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In other news...
I think I am experiencing information/Blogland/inspiration/Facebook/typing/computer screen overload. I realize that I have been spending way too much time in front of the computer these days. It feels like my play time in the studio has become what I do in between reading blogs or Facebook or emails and not the other way around which is what I would greatly prefer.
I do love Blogland and my friends and our connections so very much, but I don't want it to become the only thing I spend my time doing !!! I miss art journaling. I miss creating new things. I have been squeezing those things in here or there between visits on the computer but now it is time for a change.
While I will not disappear completely, I think I will go on a BlogLand and Facebook Slow Down for a good while. At least the next month or so.
My biggest challenge will be disciplining myself to keep my time on the computer at a minimum. I am thinking a timer or something at first.
So while I don't know exactly what this will look like or feel like, I am making my intention for myself known.
I send you Beautiful, Beautiful Ones lots of love and...
I guess I will see you when I see you...
Off to do some Mindful Living....
Parting is such sweet sorrow...
No really I am going now...
bye... ;)
