This Mother Day’s - try a little kindness
“Between Us #3”; watercolor, gesso on handmade paper Foxy, a pal on Bluesky, posted a pleasant message earlier this week to commit random acts of kindness and it inspired no small amount or reflection on my part. I dedicate this piece to all mothers and to Foxy for bringing the inspiration. To be kind may feel like being a leaf buffeted about in the harsh winds of our present. However, I have found that being kind draws on and builds a kind of resilience, a kind of strength. If you can be unconditionally kind, if you can help lift someone who’s fallen without thinking of who they are or thinking about their views or wondering if they harbor will toward you, you discover something. You learn that you can let go of your views, your judgements, your othering of that person. I find myself thinking about this a lot these days because I can be quite sarcastic and salty and write some pretty condemnatory things about certain public figures that I see as having committed gr...