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Kindness Counts

“Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.” Plato “What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?” George Eliot “Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.” Henry Burton A cautionary … Continue reading

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Less Judgmental

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau “17 percent less judgmental” — one morning on my ramblings, I came across a small square yellow placard — like one of those “Baby on Board” signs — … Continue reading

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Compassionate Critiquing

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau Just the other day a friend of mine asked me to help her fine-tune some comments she was planning to give a fellow writer during a critique session. … Continue reading

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Kindhearted Writers

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau There have been many recent tributes to the wonderful writer Dr. Oliver Sacks . In addition to being incredibly prolific and a modern-day Renaissance man, he was warmly … Continue reading

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Kind Words

“And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.” Pablo Neruda “What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau “A kind word is like a Spring day.” Russian proverb Just recently, a friend … Continue reading

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Be Kind

“Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.” Plato “What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?” George Eliot “Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.” Henry Burton Here’s a … Continue reading

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Celebrating “Rousseaumania”

“However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Rousseaumania” — that’s quite a mouthful! — but it seems an apt way to describe the festivities taking place in … Continue reading

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