A Good Father

By A Friend on October 14, 2020 / 3,886 views

One time I was in public and I was standing next to a dad and his two young boys. A man walks by us and stumbles, nearly dropping his things. The two young boys snicker, and their dad stops them immediately. He said something along the lines of, "A man trips and you laugh at him before you help him? What kind of person does something like that?" The two boys got very quiet and...

Bilingual

By A Friend on October 13, 2020 / 2,876 views

I once read a line in a poem that went, "Love everyone as your own". I related because I grew up with a family of twelve (10 children and parents) and a large, extended family of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Neighbors were in and out of each others homes at any given hour of any day, for years! Everybody was "family". Italian and French mingled with English; Eastern European...

CNA Appears Out Of Nowhere To Help 96-Year-Old Woman Walk To Her Car

By Jeanne Blicharz on October 13, 2020 / 3,011 views

By Jeanne Blicharz on October 13, 2020 / 3,011 views

I picked up my Mom where she lived and drove her to the Courthouse to drop off her mail-in-ballot. After she handed in her ballot, she asked me where she could sit down because she was tired of standing. I told her that there was a church pew type bench right outside the door of the Election Office. When she went to sit down, her legs locked up, making her unable to bend them to sit down. Her legs...

Pride Goes Before A Fall

By Anjali Mohapatra on October 13, 2020 / 3,605 views

Once, a wealthy man out of pride, drove his luxurious car with full speed. Engrossed with music, he didn't pay any attention to the traffic sign of a curve path. Eventually, he met a severe accident. The car flung into the air and dashed on the road. He was laying down unconscious in a pool of blood. However, with the help of passers-by, he was admitted one of the best hospitals of the...

Act Of Kindness At The Car Wash

By RocketShineCarWash on October 10, 2020 / 3,180 views

By RocketShineCarWash on October 10, 2020 / 3,180 views

"We're just a car wash, so we have to assume this customer (who's moving) wrote notes like this for multiple local businesses. And she brought donuts!" The note reads: Thanks for taking such good care of our cars of the past couple of years. We could always count on you to ensure our cars were clean inside and out. We're going to miss you guys and...

KEEP GOING

By Ibrahim on October 09, 2020 / 3,431 views

By Ibrahim on October 09, 2020 / 3,431 views

My criminal record kept me from getting a job so I hired myself got hotdog cart off Craigslist and a Sams Club membership made $400 a day -- $300 more than what that employer was...

I Have Decided

By A Friend on October 08, 2020 / 3,013 views

This is the end. And the beginning. The end of endless self guilt, procrastination, postponing and ignoring the reality, running away and hiding, crying, blaming others. The end of overthiking and not following my dreams. The end of giving a sh*t about other people's opinions. The end of wishing something that is not in my power, and whining over the past or daydreaming about the...

Never Too Soon

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 06, 2020 / 3,374 views

It is closing in on my 54th birthday as I write this and I am reminded of a wonderful quote by the writer, Colette: “What a wonderful life I’ve had. I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” I was so blessed to grow up the way I did. I was surrounded by a loving family. I seemed to have all of nature as my playground. I took walks in the woods, went swimming every day during the summer, had...

Warmhearted

By Lettie on October 06, 2020 / 3,594 views

When I was 22 yrs-old I experienced a neighbor's deep and warm heart. I had been home from college since December, seriously depressed and "lost" after the loss of a long-term relationship. By summertime my mother's neighbor and friend, a woman everyone knew and liked, came to the house and invited me to tea at her home that evening. That night she set out a beautiful tea set (she was British...

Ham Saved My Life Yesterday

By A Friend on October 06, 2020 / 3,410 views

By A Friend on October 06, 2020 / 3,410 views

Ham saved my life yesterday. He hurt his paw but I'm alive because of his bravery.  I was working on my house where I fell and was critically injured. He ran to me and started howling and crying; he tried to drag me and ripped his foot open. Luckily he got my neighbors attention. I should be dead, but he saved me. Thank you, Ham. You are my best friend. ...

Identity

By A Friend on October 03, 2020 / 2,444 views

I shared my "identity" with a twin...and until about 9 yrs-old my name was "Twinny". And so was hers! My name was frequently HER name, when someone thought I was her (usually followed by, "Oh, wrong one!"). Every once in awhile I was called my name: Someone would look at me and - lo and behold! - would see ME. But I knew how difficult it was for my siblings, friends and teachers...

Seasoned With Love

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 02, 2020 / 3,462 views

I couldn’t have been more than ten or eleven years old. It was a hot, Summer afternoon and I decided to cool off by taking a swim in the river that ran down the hill from our home. The water was cold and my dog jumped in to splash around with me. After a while I grabbed my towel and headed back up to the house. I knew that dinner would be ready soon. I walked in through the enclosed back porch...

All The Old Black Ladies I Work With Make Me Feel The Most Loved I've Felt In Years

By Bambi on September 30, 2020 / 2,932 views

Hey so I've had a horrible past 10 years. Childhood trauma and depression, addiction, abuse etc it's all a lot. I'm female, 24 and work in London after moving here this time last year from small village life. I now work in the mental health industry and the majority of my coworkers are African or Carribean emigrants. Every day they make my heart swell with love with the way they scold me...

Fingerprints Of God

By Joseph J. Mazzella on September 26, 2020 / 4,127 views

I haven’t been watching the news as much lately. The daily drumbeat of death, disease, and destruction has been starting to wear me down. Anytime I turned on the television it seemed like the whole world was ready to end. Thankfully, God doesn’t just show us all the news that is bad but also gives us daily reminders of His Kindness, Caring, and Love. I got one of these reminders just...

PANCAKE DAY IS HERE

By A Friend on September 21, 2020 / 3,359 views

By A Friend on September 21, 2020 / 3,359 views

This is a post we found on Facebook that warmed my heart so much. It was posted by a father who was so excited about his daughter's first sleepover. "Y'all, Nora is having her first sleepover tonight. Her best friend Faye is coming over and that means one of my biggest dad goals is gonna happen tomorrow morning. Making pancakes for them in the morning. The moment I...

Royal

By Lettie on September 18, 2020 / 3,115 views

One afternoon transformed me! In a moment, every word I'd ever learned about love was translated into flesh and blood and pulsated with life! I'd flown across the country to attend a special ceremony at Fort Benning, Georgia, and for the weekend my son and I spent hours and days together in Columbus, the small town there. Being a vegetarian, I'd prepared a list of cafes and...

I Woke Up This Morning In A Fit Of Slobbering Tears

By A Friend on September 16, 2020 / 2,730 views

It's as if 20 years of living a misdirected life finally came to a head in the wee hours of September 13th, 2020. I'm not sure why *this* morning was the morning that the world chose to reveal this epiphany to me, but here I sit. Gobsmacked. Flummoxed. Piteous. Broken. Life has decided that it has had enough of me living for myself. And, life has made this...