Kindness

Wednesday, 12:10 pm

By Kate

Mar

04

2009

This morning, my next door neighbor arrived with his van load of young people. They piled out with their shovels and began attacking my driveway. I had managed to shovel the very barest minimum required to get my car out, but not an inch more. It looked like a pretty feeble attempt, I must admit. With six kids shoveling, it took all of five minutes for them to widen my driveway to nearly normal. And what’s more, they seemed to be having an awful lot of fun doing it. After they were finished, they moved on to my neighbor’s house and spent a half hour sledding down his hill. More laughter and fun. I let them know just how much I appreciated their work and it really seemed to touch them.

I still don’t know what the situation is involving these kids, but from where I stood, they looked like an awfully nice bunch who were oddly affected by someone telling them they were wonderful and tremendously appreciated. I wanted to hug each and every one of them.

And I noted that my neighbor stood back watching the interaction, just beaming. Whatever the situation is, he obviously cares about them a great deal.