World Kindness

 

Thanks Jill, for responding with the information we had requested:

About my Mom….born and raised on a farm in England. She decided to do her part in the war so she moved to the city and joined the ATA as a driver…. Air Transport Auxiliary.
The ATA was a British civilian organization that piloted new, repaired and damaged military  aircraft from factories, assembly plants and maintenance depots to active service squadrons and airfields. The pilots involved were men and women that weren’t able to fly for the RAF for various reasons….physical issues usually. Some were Canadian.
My Mom wasn’t a pilot. She was a driver and drove the pilots to and from airfields….kinda like a taxi service.  

My Mom and Dad knew each other for only six weeks before getting married in England near the end of the war. Dad came home with the RCAF and Mom came to Canada with the “war brides”. Baby Jill was born in 1947!

I googled the Air Transport Auxiliary site - very interesting.  The women who flew handled every type of plane, including Spitfires and Lancaster bombers.  Sometimes during transport they were fired upon by the Germans so their guns were loaded so that they could fight back.  Pretty damned incredible!

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Wednesday, Nov. 13 is World Kindness Day. First organized by the World Kindness Movement in 1998, it calls for us to inject a little more kindness into our day-to-day lives.  Here is a list of things you might want to do on World Kindness Day:

• In a hurry to get where you’re going and frustrated by the construction that seems to be on every street in Hamilton right now? Let someone in who’s trying to merge into the single lane of traffic past the construction site.
• Pay for the person behind you at the coffee drive-thru, or the person ahead of you in line at the grocery store who is short of funds and needs to put items back. It will put a spring in your step and save that person’s day.
• Know someone who is going through a tough time? Maybe they’re stuck at home sick? Show up with their favourite snack or offer to take out their garbage.  (Mardi does stuff like this all the time.  She is currently helping a childhood friend who has entered the world of dementia.  Have I mentioned that I love her?)

It doesn’t take much to celebrate World Kindness Day with a kind word or gesture. It will make someone feel better and will make you feel much better too. And if you miss your chance tomorrow, don’t worry. You don’t have to wait 364 days for the next one to fill the world with kindness.

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Dug some weeds and grasses out from under another stretch of trees today.  Not exciting, but we're getting there.

Stay well.