kindness
Poem: Small Kindnesses (Published 2019)
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
I rarely feel confident enough to give anyone advice about anything, but here's something small that has changed my life as a writer: a kindness log.
Yohanca Delgadotwitter.comI’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up.
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