Strange day indeed

[lizziegrace]

The anniversary of Katrina is consuming a lot of my thoughts today. Also, tonight is visitation at the funeral home for my friend's father. I can't attend the funeral because if I don't work, I don't get paid. :(

I left late this morning as usual and drove through Tim Horton's to get a bagel. I pulled up to the window and the woman said my bagel had been paid for - by the person in the car ahead of me. :wow: I don't know this person, have never seen this car and have no idea what prompted him or her to pay for my breakfast. Funny, on the way in I was listening to a cd and one song was about simple things helping you get through the tough times. To that, I said "yeah, right". Five minutes later, someone did something totally selfless for me. So, yeah. Right. :)

[billyskank]

1. Cool

:hug:

[lizziegrace]

2. Hey there handsome

:hug:

I fully intend to pay it forward. :)

[skygazer]

3. I did that on my last road trip

Not for a bagel but I paid the toll of the car behind me just for the sheer hell of it. As we were approaching the toll booth, my SO and I were talking about things like that and decided spontaneously to do it. It felt neat.

I'm sorry you're blue - these are tough times. :hug:

[lizziegrace]

5. And you know

I've been so out of sorts and depressed. Panic attacks have escalated and this one, simple act of kindness meant more to me than that individual will *ever* know.

:hug:

[ceile]

4. That's great!

Just when you needed it. It's such a good feeling when you know that someone was thinking about someone other than themselves.

[lizziegrace]

6. So I guess the lesson here is this

you never know how your actions will touch or change another person. It might be the one thing they desperately needed to hear.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear lizziegrace!

What a cool thing for that lovely person to do.......

I am happy that it happened to you, my dear friend.........:hug:

[lizziegrace]

8. I'm happy it happened to me too

I needed to know that goodness still exists out there.

:hug:

[idgiehkt]

9. I went through that a few days ago, the Katrina thing.

I lost a nights sleep thinking about the photos of some animals who were tortured and killed in a school by St. Bernard Parish police after their owners were forced to leave them there. I couldn't sleep that night at all and then the next day I was just kind of shaking inside about that. I know I'll be reliving that stuff all week, because the Hurricaine was one day but the other stuff lasted weeks.

[lizziegrace]

11. I've been reading Jed Horne's book about Katrina

I can't read parts of it but feel I must. What human beings (and animals) endured down there was unimaginable. So much more life-altering than the mere discomfort I feel reading about it. :(
:hug:

[lizziegrace]

10. I need to change and get to the funeral home

:(

I'll be back online later.

[u4ic]

12. Sometimes it's the little things

that touch us the most. What a wonderful gesture. A couple of dollars turned into a priceless moment.

I'm sorry you can't get to the funeral. :-(

Take care of yourself, hon. :hug:

[RevCheesehead]

13. It sounds to me like the real blessing....

was that you noticed the blessing. O8)

[lizziegrace]

14. Absolutely

:)