Yes, I know that our family members are all special but isn’t there always one that is just a tad more special in some special way? Well, my special family member for just overall niceness is grand-daughter Meredith. She is 9 and just one of the nicest people I’ve ever met…not only willing to help when she visits but actually asks if there’s anything she can do to help us!
One of her habits is writing something on our white note board in the kitchen whenever she is here. It’s usually hearts or Make it a Nice Day, or I love you, but this time she wrote the note in the picture above. I don’t know if she made this up or she saw it somewhere, but it perfectly represents the niceness in this little girl’s heart that is just naturally in her DNA and which I hope never leaves her. The obvious question is, why can’t we all take this message to heart and just be kind to each other? It’s an easy choice because, at least to me, being kind is much easier than being mean. I’m sure that I could spend several paragraphs doing a psychological analysis of why kindness isn’t the norm in the world, but I’ll just say let’s follow Meredith’s mantra and choose to be kind every day to everyone we meet…I’m pretty sure that this is one of the many reasons why we are Rotarians. [Also, I'll teach her the difference between Were and Where sometime!]