September 1st is Random Acts of Kindness Day. I must confess to having a certain cynicism about these type of days. Surely every day should be a day of random kindness, just like every day should be Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Children’s Day.
Perhaps I should try to be more randomly kind and hope that days like this highlight that there are always opportunities to do something nice for someone else, be they a friend or a complete stranger. Even animals are doing it!
So I had a look at some of the suggestions on the RAK page, and wondered how the Library could help out.
I could bake for friends, neighbours, workmates (maybe not strangers – they might be a bit suspicious!).
Flowers from my garden. Hmm, I might have to work on that one for next year as my garden is not up to much, so some flower gardening books might be useful, or maybe paper flowers would suffice.
I could volunteer; our webpages have plenty of suggestions.
Maybe I could make something… anything…
Make someone laugh, try out some magic tricks!
Take the neighbour’s dog for a walk, perhaps do some training while I’m at it?
Hold a themed party. Sounds like a lot of work, but these party books might give me some ideas.
Reading a story to a child. Now this I can do! These two titles have been suggested by our children’s selector: Oi Frog and Tge Tiny King.
Whatever you do as a random act of kindness on this day, or any other, the Library is sure to be able to help you out.
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