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<\/a>My husband and DD#2 made a quick trip to the grocery\u00a0store yesterday evening and when they returned my husband reported that DD#2 left a small stack of pennies on the coin box for the\u00a0mechanical horse. While my husband praised her for her actions and mentioned good karma, our daughter explained that she’d done it to see other people happy — as a little boy climbed onto the horse and used one of the pennies for a ride, smiling with joy.<\/p>\nWhy not follow my daughter’s lead and do a small act of kindness to give someone else a smile today?\u00a0 The world is heavy from yet another national tragedy and we all need a little pick me up. While it won’t fix our\u00a0complex societal problems, a bit of love couldn’t hurt in healing some of that pain.<\/p>\n
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, <\/em> My blog has fallen by the wayside over the last few months for a variety of reasons but, after the tragic events in Las Vegas last night, I felt the need to share a bit of love and unexpected art with those who read this blog.\u00a0 My heart is again breaking at the pain in this world and my thoughts are with all of those directly and indirectly affected by these events… Earlier this school year, my DD#2 and I noticed this unusual little heart on the side stairway leading to the front door of her school, It wasn’t damp...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,2,7],"tags":[44,17,140,123,144,30,146,142,139,145,143,141],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finding-the-good","category-the-difficult-stuff","category-unexpected-art","tag-art","tag-blog","tag-joy","tag-kindness","tag-las-vegas","tag-love","tag-mandalay-bay","tag-pain","tag-random-acts","tag-route-91-festival","tag-shooting","tag-smiles"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand the roots spring up and make new trees.”<\/em> – Amelia Earhart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"