What kind of random act can you perform!

This is not necessarily what we had in mind when we recommend you help your neighbor out by performing an act of kindness.

• cut their lawn
• bring in their garbage cans after they have been emptied
• help them lay turf
• offer to haul away their excess yard waste if you are going to the dump anyways.
• offer to prune their trees
• offer to watch their home if they are going on vacation
• look after a pet or animal
• take them a meal or some pastry
• lend a hand on any projects

I know what you are thinking … this takes some sweat and possibly sacrificing time away from your own projects or family but many hands do make light work and when you need help it just might be your neighbor that steps up to reciprocate or return the favor.

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What exactly do we mean when we say, “Pass on some Sun”? It means to help make someone else’s day. Perform a random act of kindness without expecting anything in return.

Share a cab, help an elderly person with a task, adopt a co-worker to help their transition, pay for coffee, tip generously, loan your truck, help someone move, love unconditionally, praise your children, compliment at least one person everyday.

Remember to download a smile card and leave it with the recipient to encourage them to pay it forward. Turn up the heat by passing on some Sun today.

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It is great to see Hollywood get behind the Pay it Forward campaign. The Kindness in Motion Team is always looking for ways to encourage others to do just that, Pay it Forward. Consider treating a friend to this Movie, you never know what seed it will plant or the good it will do.

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To the Kindness in Motion Team this image literally means we hold the Sun in our hands and if we choose we can pass on some Sun to another person each and everyday. Make today the day you pass on some Sun to an anonymous recipient.

Pay for someone’s coffee, toll fee or lunch in a fast food drive thru. Deliver some baking or cut someone’s lawn. Remember, YOUR ripple can start a WAVE ~

Start by downloading some smile cards and performing an anonymous act of kindness, after completing your kind act leave the card which will hopefully encourage the recipient to do same.

Pass on some SUN!!!!

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Workers dig through trash to find valuable jewelry

ORLANDO, Fla. - Walt Disney World makes wishes come true for so many visitors every year however in this case it was not your typical wish. Disney staff worked its magic on a Massachusetts couple who accidentally threw away three platinum and diamond wedding rings.

While tidying up their villa as they prepared to leave the park late last week, Paul Campanale dumped a cardboard bowl, not knowing the container inside it held his wife Karen’s engagement, wedding and five-year-anniversary rings.

Park employees knew recovering the jewelry was all but impossible so informed the couple the chances were slim and unlikely they would see their jewelry again. So on Friday, the Campanales and their two children loaded onto a Magical Express bus and headed to the airport destined for home.

Back at the Wilderness Lodge resort, executive housekeeper Drew Weaver realized that trash from the Campanales’ villa had not yet reached the industrial-size compactor. He and seven other volunteers donned protective clothing, emptied a parking lot bin and waded through bag after bag of rubbish to find the rings. And they did.

Paul Campanale, 37, a chemist, received the good news on his cell phone and Weaver met the family to deliver the rings. Karen Campanale, 35, a teacher, said she was shocked by the find.

“That’s not the first time we’ve gone through trash — oh, no,” Weaver said. “We don’t always find things. Many times we come up empty. But we didn’t this time.”

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At KindnessinMotion.com we are so passionate about encouraging and reporting on random acts of kindness that we developed this portal. The internet is used for too many negative functions and we wanted to try and offset that by using it in a positive way.

Join us in encouraging Random Acts of Kindness by performing one today!. Get started, download and print some smile cards, perform a random act of kindness, leave the card and hopefully the recipient will pay it forward or do the same. YOUR ripple can start a WAVE !!!

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“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” Lao Tzu

“Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house… let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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Stories like this never cease to amaze the Kindness in Motion team. In this instance, these kids have set an example for athletes of all ages.

PORTLAND, Ore. - With two runners on base and a strike against her, Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University uncorked her best swing and did something she had never done, in high school or college. Her first ever dinger (home run) cleared the center-field fence.

But it appeared to be the shortest of dreams come true when she missed first base, started back to tag it and collapsed with a knee injury.

She crawled back to first but could do no more. The first-base coach said she would be called out if her teammates tried to help her. Or, the umpire said, a pinch runner could be called in, and the homer would count as a single.

Then, members of the Central Washington University softball team stunned spectators by carrying Tucholsky around the bases Saturday so the three-run homer would count — an act that contributed to their own elimination from the playoffs.

Central Washington first baseman Mallory Holtman, the career home run leader in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, asked the umpire if she and her teammates could help Tucholsky.

The umpire said there was no rule against it.

So Holtman and shortstop Liz Wallace put their arms under Tucholsky’s legs, and she put her arms over their shoulders. The three headed around the base paths, stopping to let Tucholsky touch each base with her good leg.

“The only thing I remember is that Mallory asked me which leg was the one that hurt,” Tucholsky said. “I told her it was my right leg and she said, ‘OK, we’re going to drop you down gently and you need to touch it with your left leg,’ and I said ‘OK, thank you very much.”’

“She said, ‘You deserve it, you hit it over the fence,’ and we all kind of just laughed.”

“We started laughing when we touched second base,” Holtman said. “I said, ’I wonder what this must look like to other people.”’

“We didn’t know that she was a senior or that this was her first home run,” Wallace said Wednesday. “That makes the story more touching than it was. We just wanted to help her.”

Holtman said she and Wallace weren’t thinking about the playoff spot, and didn’t consider the gesture something others wouldn’t do.

As for Tucholsky, the 5-foot-2 right fielder was focused on her pain.

“I really didn’t say too much. I was trying to breathe,” she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday.

“I didn’t realize what was going on until I had time to sit down and let the pain relax a little bit,” she said. “Then I realized the extent of what I actually did.”

“I hope I would do the same for her in the same situation,” Tucholsky added.

As the trio reached home plate, Tucholsky said, the entire Western Oregon team was in tears.

Central Washington coach Gary Frederick, a 14-year coaching veteran, called the act of sportsmanship “unbelievable.”

For Western Oregon coach Pam Knox, the gesture resolved the dilemma Tucholsky’s injury presented.

“She was going to kill me if we sub and take (the home run) away. But at the same time I was concerned for her. I didn’t know what to do,” Knox said.

Tucholsky’s injury is a possible torn ligament that will sideline her for the rest of the season, and she plans to graduate in the spring with a degree in business. Her home run sent Western Oregon to a 4-2 victory, ending Central Washington’s chances of winning the conference and advancing to the playoffs.

“In the end, it is not about winning and losing so much,” Holtman said. “It was about this girl. She hit it over the fence and was in pain, and she deserved a home run.”

Credit: Associated Press
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11-year-old Boy Scout displays an act to make parents proud even though his own wallet is still missing.

DORR, Mich. — When 11-year-old Boy Scout, J.R. Bouterse found someone’s wallet containing $800 inside, he understood the empty feeling the person who lost it was going through.

Only a few weeks before, he had lost his own wallet and the $45 it contained.

Bouterse immediately told an adult about his discovery, which was turned over to a law-enforcement official and returned to its grateful owner.

“We’re just so proud of him,” said the boy’s mother, Michelle Bouterse, 41. “We can’t say enough.”

To reward the boy, the Michigan State Police threw a pizza party Monday night, not only for the law-abiding child but for all 30 Scouts in Troop 90.

Surprise guest
Another guest at the party, to J.R.’s surprise, was 20-year-old Jessica Cutler, the wallet’s owner, who wanted to personally thank him for his act of honesty.

“I can’t believe someone would find a wallet with that much money in it and not take some,” she said. “A lot of people maybe wouldn’t have done that same thing. I’m just glad he found it and not someone else.”

J.R. found the wallet while leaving a Scout meeting at the church about a week ago.

“I knew exactly how she felt,” he said. Unfortunately, J.R. wallet has not been returned which makes the story all the more incredible.

What a great story and we look forward to posting more of the same.
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