Small things

“So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution?”

                                            Alexander McCall Smith, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

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Let the small things come into their own

The gentle words

The smiles

The hugs of acceptance and compassion

The silence of presence

Let the small things come into their own

The wood cut and stacked

The casserole offered on the altar of empathy

Let the small things come into their own

As we transform our anger and our hatred

into

ordinary acts of love