Turn 'nice' into 'kind' (collect wooly socks!)
It's 'nice' to care about issues in our community; a feeling to want to help is 'nice'. But 'nice’ needs a nudge to make it ‘kind’. On a blustery October day, Monica was driving along the Potomac River and noticed a homeless man on the side of the road and thought to herself, 'I sure hope he has woolen socks on.' What a nice thought. Then she started a 'warm wooly's sock drive' in her community, putting the ask on NextDoor. Now, that's kind! Socks and packages with socks started filling the box on her porch; soon she had over 60 pairs. This morning she and her nieces and nephew went to hand deliver woolen socks to homeless men and women they had seen, or that neighbors had alerted her to, on various street corners in DC and MD; they'll go again on Christmas Day. "Each time we handed out a bag, we were filled with warmth," she said, "we cried a lot too." Next year she's planning to do warm wooly socks ... and gloves. It's nice to care; it's kind to do something about it.
Let's all be kind.