World Kindness Day

Today (13 Nov) is World Kindness Day. These thoughts by the American writer Marc Estrin, about kindness, were put up by the Singapore Kindness Movement:

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A favourite song of mine is Glen Campbell's "Try a Little Kindness" (1970):

Try a Little Kindness

If you see your brother standing by the road
With a heavy load from the seeds he's sowed
And if you see your sister falling by the way
Just stop and stay you're going the wrong way

You got to try a little kindness
Yes show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you'll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets

Don't walk around the down and out
Lend a helping hand instead of doubt
And the kindness that you show every day
Will help someone along their way

You got to try a little kindness
Yes show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you'll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets

You got to try a little kindness
Yes show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you'll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets

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Here's a concert performance that Campbell gave in 2001, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (some 31 years later), and uploaded on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX63u9LEhdQ