Category Archives: the Kindness Cycle
She’s Helpful at Home
An amazing migrant caretaker who’d helped this family out a whole lot, not just in helping to care for the writer’s husband, but in, many, other ways as well too, translated… Since we had a hired nurse’s aide at home, … Continue reading
The Barefooted Kind Man, Donated His Money and Books for Twenty Years Lived His Life Simply
A kind man, with the will of doing good, of helping those who are, less fortunate than he, with his own abilities, his own, will, from the Newspapers, translated… Lai, whom everybody called “the barefoot kind man”, had been more … Continue reading
The Expressions of, Love
As the parents age, and the kids needed to feel closer to them, translated… M’s father became mildly demented of late, and lately, he’d remembered, less and less, and less still. M had felt, awful, that she couldn’t, stay at … Continue reading
Posted in Acts of Kindness, Beliefs, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Facts, Kindness, Lessons of Life, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, the Kindness Cycle, The Passages in Life, the Process of Life, Values of Life
Tagged Connecting with Ones' Own Fathers as They Became Elderly, Kindness Toward Ones' Own Parents as They Age, Reciprocation of Love
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The Night the Lights Went Out
After that very first light was lit up, the rest followed, how one tiny act of kindness can, spark up a sort of a “movement” in the neighborhood, translated… It was seven in the evening that night, then suddenly, without … Continue reading
The Scattered Pieces of Jewelry
An heirloom jewelry passed down from your mother to you, and now, to your own, children and, hopefully, they will, pass it down, to their own, young too! Translated… My mother was born before 1911, lived as the citizen of … Continue reading
“Is S/he an Illegitimate Child?” The Foster Mom Didn’t Care of the Rumors and Still Gave a Ton of Love
These foster parents are, amazing, and yet, they had to, deal with, a ton of, gossips, from all around them, it’s just, not asked-for! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated… Ms. Pan in Nantou started fostering children seventeen years … Continue reading
Posted in Acts of Kindness, Beliefs, Child Development, Experiences of Life, Facts, Kindness, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, the Kindness Cycle, The Passages in Life, Values of Life, Welfare of Children
Tagged Foster Care, Providing Stability to Children's Lives, the Love of Foster Parents
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Farewell, Yaya
The kindness shown to this hired foreign caretaker for the parents, is reciprocated, because that is, how it goes, when you’re, kind to others, they will surely be, kind to you, and your, loved ones too, translated… Seeing the photo … Continue reading
Posted in Beliefs, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Facts, Kindness, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, the Kindness Cycle, The Passages in Life, Values of Life
Tagged Foreign Hired Nurse's Aide and the Interactions of the Families They Work for, Kindness Reciprocated, Like a Family Member
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Compassion Toward Others Starts from Close-to-Home
From the encounters of life, by a long-term educator, on charity during the most-needed time of year to show it, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… A child came to me, talked about how she and a friend went … Continue reading
Posted in Acts of Kindness, Beliefs, Experiences of Life, Facts, Kindness, Opinions, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, the Kindness Cycle, The Passages in Life, Values of Life
Tagged Charity During the Holidays, Monetary Donations vs. Physically Offering to Help Someone Out
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Life, the Obstacle Course 