To Know the Tender Gravity of Kindness
My son helped me record this reading of Naomi Shihab Nye’s wonderful poem today. Kindness springs from empathy, as so beautifully worded here, and a sentiment I wish to reflect upon during this season. Kindness
by Naomi Shihab Nye Kindness
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate