Tuesday but really Monday
Labor Day is a good thing – I’m happy to have had the day off but boy does Tuesday feel like Monday. The overarching theme of the day came from yours truly, Michele, during yoga whose talk today was on kindness and she asked that we try to be kind to at least two people every day.
Yom Kippur is fast approaching (Sep 28) and although I’ve given up my religious ways for more spiritual pursuits, I still hold this day sacred to fast, to meditate, and to reflect on what has gone before and what might come next. For the Jews, this is a day when you are supposed to forgive anyone who has wronged you and to ask for forgiveness from anyone you have wronged.
I thought about that this morning on my walk – about forgiveness – and then later about kindness. Sometimes you know what you should be doing to make things right and yet you still don’t follow your own knowingly good advice, but sometimes that’s okay too.
It’s really easier to be kind to strangers more often than not.