{"id":303,"date":"2009-04-10T14:21:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T14:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/your-random-acts-of-kindness.html"},"modified":"2009-04-10T14:21:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T14:21:28","slug":"your-random-acts-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/your-random-acts-of-kindness.html","title":{"rendered":"Share: Your Random Acts of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kindness_is.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>We’ve all heard the phrase, attributed to peace activist Anne Herbert, “Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.”  <\/p>\n

So here’s a question: Have you done any lately?  Seen any?<\/b>  I suspect that among you are many perpetrators of such acts, we’d love to gather them to show how kindness is the rule, not the exception – even in our sometimes-scary world.<\/p>\n

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We’ve all heard the phrase, attributed to peace activist Anne Herbert, “Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.”  So here’s a question: Have you done any lately?  Seen any?  I suspect that among you are many perpetrators of such acts, we’d love to gather them to show how kindness is the rule,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29,32],"tags":[401,208,400],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-inspiration","category-positive-things","tag-anne-herbert","tag-kindness","tag-random-acts-of-kindness"],"yoast_head":"\nShare: Your Random Acts of Kindness - Fresh Living<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/your-random-acts-of-kindness.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Share: Your Random Acts of Kindness - 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