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Wal-Mart.

Kindness can be as simple as a Wal-Mart employee encouraging you, in the middle of the ice cream freezer, to check out the kitchen utensils at the end cap because they're marked down from $3 to 10 cents.  Kindness is the right truth. (My original definition.)    We picked up an extra soup ladle (because we always find ourselves needing two simultaneously and Matt loves soups). Before we were out of sight, I waved the ladle "Goodbye." at the gentleman (I wish I had caught his name on his name tag to record here) with gratitude.  He smiled back from behind his respirator.  You can tell when a person truly means their smile because their eyes do.   An even exchange was made between us from his act of kindness, smiles. I have what I like to call a jot-journal, and inside its pages I have a jot-thought about kindness... "Kindess is the richest currency.  It is the kind that evokes an honest return in your investment." -Emily   PS Wal-Mart has its reput...

Hashtags

Hashtags are fun. My mom, two sisters, and I can have a conversation, almost, in hashtags. We even punctuate our hashtags with an "exclamation point" emphasized by the thump of our four fingers enumerating the syllables in /hashtag/.  We know it's going to be a good one because the punctuation comes before the actual clips of "phrases".  There's something in a good hashtag, I feel.  Talking in hashtags is saying everything you need to say about something in witty code.   Wit is something special.  In my opinion, wit is mastered by going through an experience and coming out on the good side of it.  Wit is like a language, but there has to be a spark between the sender and receiver so it doesn't get lost in the encoding and decoding process of communication.   So wit is kind of like a love language.  It's the humor in the language between two kindred hearts.  Because, yes, I do believe, laughter is the best medicine.  BEGIN SIDENOTE: When ...