Hey, Y'all! I done signed us up!

https://bornthisway.foundation/bekind21/?utm_source=btwfsitepopup&utm_medium=websitepopup&utm_campaign=bekind21&utm_id=bekind21

Good afternoon, Huggin' Fools! (xoxoxox!)

The BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION, started by Lady Gaga a couple of years ago, is running a Kindness promotion from September 1 to September 21. I somehow KNEW you would want to participate. (Wonder how I knew that.... ;-)

So, your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to hit the link above, read as much as you need to to get you up to speed, and then just run with it. Share it with friends, family, work, church, whomever. And take it upon yourself to be a virtual BOMB of kindness, blowing the hair back on everyone you meet!

These are some tough days. People are sick. People are down. And we don't feel as comfortable wrapping our arms around strangers like a blanket of love, the way we used to. But that is just a circumstance that is begging us to step up and use our noggins: if we can't use touch as freely to raise that vibration, then surely we can do something else. We are resourceful, smart, and KIND people. I can't speak for you, but I know that MY love does not like to be contained. And the world needs it. There are people who feel lost and unloved. You and I can fix that. A smile, a kind word, something small that shows you care...sometimes, that is all it takes!

I'm going to be creating (at the suggestion of the #BeKind21 website,) a calendar of suggestions and challenges. You can use that, or come up with your own thing. The ways to be kind are as multitudinous and beautiful as we are. Bring your light. Fill yourself with the joy of your power to do good, until it spills over.

When you are on a plane, the attendant instructs you: "If the oxygen mask drops, put yours on before you put someone else's on them." This is an important life lesson: You can't help others if you are not in good shape, yourself. So, remember that, as you are planning your KINDNESS activities. Put yourself first. If you need rest, or water, or space, or....WHATEVER you need: ask for it. Accept it. Being kind to you is the first necessary step before being kind to everyone else.

I am wishing you every good thing. Whatever you are needing, may it come effortlessly to you. I am sending you the energy of my warmest, longest hugs, and my deepest eye-gazing, and the steadiness of my hand, if you need one to hold right now. And, I am grateful to you for being THAT PERSON: the one that sees a group of ego-less, love-showering nuts offering their hugs on the side of the road, and says, "Hell yeah! I'm in!" Thank you for being the one who is willing to shush any nagging fear that may have held you back, and leading instead with your heart.

REALLY. Thank you so much for being that kindness, that light, even before a #BeKind21 thingy told you to do it. That's who you are.
I see you.

SO Much Love,
Donna

PS. This is NOT at Mt Everest. (Meetup insisted I give you and address; Planet Earth was not good enough.) It's wherever you are right now, and wherever you find yourself in the next ...100 years. Go tell it on the mountain!