you know what @hanami ...
acts of kindness that glow brightest in my memory are those that have come from strangers. And, always seem to involve food!
I know I'm thin-ish, but I must have hunger written on my face like I just don't realise. 🤭 ...
I had moved into the Kinglake area a couple decades ago (before the fires), and was hunkered down alone for my first winter out at Pheasants Creek. Some nice lady turned up one evening from down the road & around the corner with a home cooked lasagne - just to say welcome.
It was still piping hot!
This impressed me so much...
And I've been gifting people cooked food ever since.
As if to stick with a theme, the karmic wheel rolls around now and then with strangers continuing to give me food...
They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach - maybe they're right.
As down and out as i often feel these days, i reflect on these acts of kindness and, yes: it does feed the soul, also.
I might mention, aswell, when I asked directly for some encouragement and support here at the Forums recently... How readily the members sprang up for me! 🙏
Someone rather attentive even thought to gift me a piece by my favourite poet, which I'd not read before, and was especially beautiful.
Now, I've heard the cynics wry testimony, that hell is other people.
But so are angels, too, at times,.. and the goodness in them turns giving hands to wings.
