The Kindness Chronicles

I volunteered to teach 30 4th graders how to make
symmetrical butterflies from construction paper.

It's easy for me to teach art to kids. I bet that you have a passion that you could share. Why not volunteer in a classroom, just for an hour or two, and teach the kids something fun. Their smiles will reward you tenfold.

some more kindness:

• My husband's mother lives in a residential senior facility in Seattle. Every month, elementary school children come to the residence and read to the seniors.
• A Mundo Lindo mom brought juice packs for all the kids one day.
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  • See the scarf I'm wearing in this picture? I tye-dyed it myself. I realized that my adorable, young, yoga teacher would look great in it, so I gave it to her as a little gift.
  
  

• My husband's friends from college, came again this year, to play in the San Diego Brain Injury Foundation golf tourney, and show their support for my husband. 

My husband, Don Strom (left) and  our friend, Tom Blinn at the golf tourney

Rick Keating and Jim Kelly, Don's college fraternity brothers.
Rick and Jim started the Don Strom Scholarship Fund for Don to select and help brain injury survivors with financial assistance. Rick also volunteers as  MC of the golf tourney dinner. These guys fly down from Seattle each year for the tourney. 

My husband, Don, and Steven, one of the brain injury survivors that the Don Strom Scholarship Fund paid for to play in the
San Diego Brain Injury Foundation charity golf tourney.

Teenagers being and seeing kindness:

My last Kindness Chronicle post, I showed you the form Susan Avery Clark made for her high school students, here.  Remember, these are teenagers. Here are a few:

Susie's question: In complete sentences write what you did to be kind.

• "I told Mrs. Clark that I enjoy her teaching just now."
• "Every time someone needs me to listen to them and give them advice, I'm always there."
• "My aunt had moved into an apartment. I found out she was sleeping on the floor, and hurting her back, so I gave my bed to her. She was really happy."
• "I helped a random kid carry his bike down a slippery hill last weekend."
• "One act of kindness I did was when my mom was bringing in the groceries all by herself, and I just started to help her without her telling me to."
• "I participated in a soup kitchen for the homeless. It's every Monday."

She also had the kids write about seeing someone else being kind.

• " I saw a policeman and an intoxicated homeless man. The homeless man reached out to grab the officer, and instead of taking him to jail, the policeman put out his hand and said 'let's get you something to eat."
• "When someone waits and holds open the door at a store. It's little stuff like that that makes me feel good."
• "Two weeks ago my brother got deported so me, and the rest of my family went to go see him. As we were walking to cross back (over the Mexico/US border) two guys dropped their passports and this little boy selling charms saw the passports on the ground, grabbed them and ran to catch up to them and give them their passports."

I made cupcakes, using flower images from my sketchbook. I served them to our San Diego Sketchcrawl group.
 
You can read my other Kindness Chronicles posts here and here. I post The Kindness Chronicles on the first Sunday of every month. Join me.

Please share, in the comments, what kindnesses you did this past month...It will inspire  others, I promise.