I adore it when I see two people … sharing the burden of a shopping bag or sack of laundry by each gripping one of the handles … I suppose part of why I so adore the sack sharing is because most often this is a burden one or the other could manage just fine solo … Yes, it’s the lack of necessity of this that’s precisely why it delights me so.*
Ross Gay

When we feel like doing something selfish, indulgent, hurtful or short-term, we can simply decide to do it later. And when it occurs to us that we might be able to make a useful contribution or do something important, perhaps we could do it now.**
Seth Godin

It’s a wonderful thing to be human, in this
moment to be capable of spontaneous goodness –
Born of gratitude growing a generous heart, an alternative to
unpleasantness, which we can
put away, perhaps forever.

I always need more practise.

*Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights;
**Seth Godin’s blog: Later or now.