Still With Me? Recruited Anyone Else?

Are you with me as part of the Kindness Campaign to change the world to something better? 

Want to know ways to turn your caring into action?
Today's daily dozen to-do list:

• Gather a few neighbors to dopt an entrance to your neighborhood and periodically have a get-together to keep it weeded and cleaned up. Serve refreshments and make it a Saturday morning party!
• Send cards or letters of appreciation to people you read about in the news who have done good deeds. Send kind thoughts to people you hear about in your community who have suffered a setback. Send "Thinking of You" cards to acquaintances who may be struggling with some issue in their life.
• Write a note to the supervisor of someone who has been particularly helpful, letting him or her know how the employee helped you.
• Collect stories from family members about kind acts, both given and received, and create a family scrapbook. If you have photos, include them with the stories. As years go by and as your children grow, all of yu can review the many ways that kindness has touched your family's life.
• Spruce up the yard of a neighbor or friend who is ill or who has just had surgery or a death in the family.
• Smile and say "hello" to someone you don't know.
• Save box tops for education and donate to a local school, even if you don't have children.
• Create or donate floral arrangements for a senior center, nursing home, police station, hospital or the home-bound.
• Set aside a portion of your garden for a neighbor child to tend, and work in the garden together, offering ideas and expertise as you go. Or simply help a child start a vegetable plant, teach him or her how to tend it, and allow them to take the produce home.
• Sponsor a "Kindness Zone" or "practice Random Acts of Kindness" sign at entrances to the downtown area of your community.
• Put notes of encouragement in library books for someone else to find. [Don't write in the books, of course.]
• Prepare treats for neighbors, emergency workers, mail carriers, coworkers, military personnel, or other community members, along with a note of appreciation. Drop off homemade baked goods to the nearest fire station, police station, emergency room, post office, etc.,  to let them know how much they are appreciated. 
• Share the Kindness Campaign with others; share the blog on FaceBook, Twitter, etc. and enlist more recruits.