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The Kindness Series: No More Mr. Nice Guy, Be Kind Instead
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When Kindness Hits You Like a Ton of Bricks, Build a Home

The Kindness Series: No More Mr. Nice Guy, Be Kind Instead

“She’s nice.” “Niiiiicccce!” says my son, ogling the Rolls Royce parallel-parked outside a downtown Boston McDonald’s. (Yup, really….) Nice. (Sarcasm oozing, eyes rolling, when we witness someone else’s blunder.) That was a kind thing to do! Often we consider “nice” and “kind” to be interchangeable descriptors. But let’s try a quick experiment. Try replacing “kind” for “nice” in each of the first three statements above. “Kind” only works for the first, but not for the second or third. We would not describe an expensive car (or any other pricey, stylish object) as kind, or, at least in current vernacular, use…

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When Kindness Hits You Like a Ton of Bricks, Build a Home

During a rare outing my daughter and I headed to a local store to buy some makeup.  Weird, as makeup seems a relic of another time and place, not one in which she is being homeschooled and wears a mask over half her face whenever we leave the house.  But we went anyway, needing any reason at all to break the monotony of being homebound. Excited about our purchases and even more thrilled to be engaging with the real world, we were startled by the older man entering the store as we emerged into the cold, sunny day.  Even more…

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