When your daughter borrows your expensive earrings without asking, and your hair is a wavy mess, and you get a project dumped on you before you’ve even left the house, and one son almost misses the bus, and the other son generates an email from school for being habitually late to science class, and your parking ramp is full so you have to walk an extra three blocks with something in your shoe, and you can’t find your security badge, and you realize you’ve forgotten to plug in the slow-cooker so dinner is not underway as planned…
And then your dad sends you a note about how much he enjoyed your last blog post and how talented you are and how proud he is.
And all things in the universe around you breathe a collective sigh of relief and the day settles back into place.
Small kindnesses matter.