Tag: kindness

• The Kindness of Strangers

  In 1970 I graduated from college as a newly minted English teacher. Growing up as a Midwesterner, I had never been to New England, but I thought it would be an interesting place to live, a place with lots of history and literature to discover. I didn’t know a soul out there, but I figured…

  Marian

  September 29, 2012

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

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• I am right!

  I guess that means you are wrong if you don’t agree with me. Right? I learned from an early age that when I know something is one way, and someone else says it’s another way, that I’m right and they’re wrong. The earliest confrontation I remember about who’s right and who’s wrong came when I…

  Marian

  August 25, 2012

  Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  agree with me, being right, being wrong, contradictions, differences of opinion, Hokey Pokey, kernel of truth, kindergarten, kindness, life challenges, MARIAN, Miss Polly, polarization of politics, reflections