Tiny Bits of Kindness

She knows how much we love her

Let love life her up

Then she recited another

To be Sasya

One must first dream then act out

Small but strong she grows


Another poem was written on a card by my second friend,


Let your heart be true

Let your eyes be open

Relish the rain and sun

Forgiveness is our road to true compassion

Love yourself

Honor all


Which she followed by one of her favorite quotes.


“Peace is every step.”

—Thich Nhat Hanh 


And then she handed me a pink crystal rock. “This is your gratitude rock.”

I looked at the strangers looking at us from the next table and started to cry.

The third friend opened up a poetry book from the 1940’s that she had picked up at a garage sale after skimming through it and read the following.


Giving and Forgiving

What makes life worth the living

Is our giving and forgiving;

Giving tiny bits of kindness

That will leave a joy behind us,

And forgiving bitter trifles

That the right word often stifles,

For the little things are bigger

Than we often stop to figure.

What makes life worth the living

Is our giving and forgiving.

—Thomas Grant Springer


“When you called we knew we had to do something,” she continued. “So we said, ‘Okay! We have fifteen minutes to do something for her’ and we broke to our separate corners and came up with these.”

I couldn’t believe it. I was in the presence of those tiny bits of kindness and they were around me all of the time, just waiting for me to say, “I can’t do this alone.”