And then it was on to Park City (Utah); to engage yet another “Experiment with Truth” in order to see if the Radical Kindness I had come to know as a Peace Pilgrim would function “in the real world” – while working three jobs (one of them as a daycare attendant for The Canyons Resort – pictured) to pay my expensive rent and while trying to maintain a romantic relationship that was far less than functional. The verdict: selfless Love actually worked just as well – and proved to be actually even more potent – in such difficult moments than it did otherwise. And this is Good News indeed for everyone immersed in the everyday world of obligation and responsibility – namely, that Kindness is truly always an option and is truly always effective whenever it is courageously enlivened …

“As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.” ~ Caroline Kennedy

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the Spirit – the Soul – the Self.” ~ via Kahlil Gibran

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