Sweet Thursdays are Saturdays or Sundays

More and more often. I'm sorry I haven't written for the last two Thursdays about my acts of kindness! I'm not so sure they are the best to advertise, because I don't know how legal they are...

This time of year, I always am craving new music--spring is such a beautiful time for new beginnings. So to share in the music I find, I make mix cd's and leave them in random places around town, on the windshields of people's cars, front steps..I've even sent out a few in the mail to friends who have been feeling down.

I'm sure it doesn't necessarily comply with anti-piracy laws, but maybe the reproduction of music for a good cause can be forgiven?

Do It Anyway..I will--but on Saturday.

Another completely hectic week. Forty hours at work, four hours in the weeee hours of morning subbing for a friend's yoga class, frantically studying for my March 15 mid-term, writing proposals and drafting prom plans for the nursing home, and my brother is home for spring break!

So my act of kindness will have to wait until Saturday. I already have it planned :)
For now, I stumbled upon these inspiring words today, said to have been tacked to Mother Teresa's wall in Calcutta:

"Do it Anyway"

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Turning A New Page

So, I was frustrated. My attempt to provide a little magic and wonder by planting fistfulls of Gerber daisies in the snow on random front lawns did not provoke magic and wonder in many of the receivers. One house took them in, but 3 left them--or worse--threw them in the street.

Generally, I'm not giving with attachment to response, but I am doing this to make small differences in people's every day lives. To bring beauty, magic, wonder, curiousity, belief in the good--in small ways in the lives of others every week. The castaway daisies made me rethink some things. So on Thursday, I did no small act of kindness. I thought about how to make a bigger impact, how to bring more of the community together, how to care for those who might need or welcome it with a little more warmth.

And I wrote up a proposal Thursday night, pitched it to the Activities Director at E.Dene Moore on Friday, and got the green light to:

Plan a Prom at the Nursing Home! on April 24th. I am hoping to get local hairdressers to style the women's hair that afternoon, and I have permission to borrow decorations from the high school prom which is the week before. I'm thinking Glen Miller and Cole Porter and wheeling people around the dance floor. I'm thinking the women deserve tiarra's if they want them, and punch if allowed, and maybe a red carpet walk with some of the kids from the high school decked out in their best from the week before.

I will have a lot of planning and work to do before then, and after this week, I'll continue with my small acts of kindness; but this way I can bring more people together and maybe make a bigger difference in the small corner of the world I'm living in.