But those ideas about our neighborhood would be wrong. Because even though I belong to 3 different electronic
groups whose memberships are made up of my neighbors, the truth is that I do
not know many of them. Oh sure, I know a
few by name, and I know some enough to smile and say “hi” if they walk by while
we are working the garden. But we are
not the type of community where we all really KNOW one another.
So all of that is to explain THIS: a neighbor named Kia has been kind TWICE to
us lately, and I have never even MET HER.
J Isn’t that fabulous??
The first time she offered her kindness was in October. I had a grand Halloween costume idea but
lacked the necessary materials to make it, namely, I needed a BIG PIECE OF
CARDBOARD. For a couple of years I wanted
to dress up as bacon (me) and a big egg (David), and this year we finally had the
time to make the costumes! Only, we had
no big sheet of cardboard…
So I posted on our neighborhood Facebook group asking if
anyone perhaps had a big box they could give us, like from a flat screen tv or
a refrigerator. Luckily for me, someone I
didn’t even know replied that she indeed had a box and we were welcome to it! She said they had just bought a new crib and
if the box was big enough for what we needed we could have it! She gave us the address for pick up and when
we realized it was only, like, seven doors down from us we walked down to pick
it up.
Yup, we had never met the neighbors seven doors down. And even after we picked up the perfect box,
we STILL didn’t meet Kia! Her husband
opened the door and gave us the box, but Kia was inside feeding the kids. (The box worked perfectly! It was just what we needed and David’s sunny
side up egg was lovely! It was the
perfect complement to my bacon.)
Hey! It is BACON and EGGS!! (Egg made out of a cardboard box from a baby crib!) |
Wait a minute, who is that? Could it be - EGGS and BACON??? |
Proof that the snow was DEEP - this is a row of rental bikes in our neighborhood. |
Well, not only did she tell me who did it (they will be
recognized in a future kindness entry here), she offered to loan us her family’s
ELECTRIC POWER SNOW SHOVEL!! Yes, she didn’t
even KNOW US and she was going to trust their fancy new tool to us!
Well, she didn’t’ have to offer twice – off we went to borrow
it! But wouldn’t you know it, when we
knocked on the door, AGAIN WE DID NOT GET TO MEET KIA, the sweet person who
offered us the shovel in the first place!
She was feeding the baby, but her nice husband was happy to loan us the
shovel.
Isn't this cool?? Because it was so deep, we had to do layer by layer with the Power Shovel, but it worked! |
I am sure this goes without saying, but after a few hours
when we had shoveled all we could shovel and went to return the fancy electric
shovel, you guessed it, no Kia… J
We survived the Blizzard of 2016 :) |
Thanks Kia – you are a Kindness Activist. I will walk down to your house this week to
deliver your Kindness button – wonder if I will officially finally meet
you????! J
I found this photo of Kia on her Facebook page. I am putting it here so next time I see her walk by I will recognize her! :)
Do you know a Kindness Activist? Or maybe, like Kia, you don't even KNOW them, but they have been kind to you? Tell me about them! Send me details at: kindnessactivist@gmail.com . Let's share stories of kindness and make the world a more kind place!
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