A Challenge

I don't expect anyone to look to me for guidance or wisdom but recently I've been thinking about a precept I believe is worth attempting.

 Be Kind. 

It doesn't always come easy to me; I can be sarcastic and snarky (anything for a laugh) and come across as unfeeling. But I'm going to try to remember first of all to

Be Kind. *

 

 “Dogfish” by Mary Oliver (an excerpt)

 . . .

You don’t want to hear the story

of my life, and anyway

I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

And anyway it’s the same old story – – –

a few people just trying,

one way or another,

to survive.

Mostly, I want to be kind.

And nobody, of course, is kind,

or mean,

for a simple reason.

And nobody gets out of it, having to

swim through the fires to stay in

this world.

 Okay, perhaps I need to qualify my precept. I don't intend to be kind to the Loser-in-Chief or any of his enablers.  The kindest  thing I can say about him is that I suspect he was damaged by his upbringing. I  mean kindness in personal interactions--whether real or virtual. (And what is real, anyway?)

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