A Dish of Kindness

A comforting casserole of mac and cheese, a fresh loaf of bread with a pot of hearty soup, Grandma's traditional coffee cake sweetened with honey; these are some of the foods we take to our family, friends and neighbours during the challenges and celebrations that we all share.

But maybe it's not just about the food.

It could be that what we're actually taking is "a dish of kindness."

Through our gifts of food, we're also offering our support and encouragement, an ear to listen, a heart to understand and a hand to hold as others celebrate joyful occassions, or struggle to stand in the pain of loss and grief. We're bringing them our human kindness.

 I invite you to join me in creating a space where we can share recipes, and the stories related to those recipes, which have been life-changing, enlightening, heart-warming and powerful.

Maybe it's the recipe for cookies that you and your sisters made for the young widow next door, or the baked bean recipe that all your teacher buddies want at the end- of- the -school- year celebration in your backyard - it doesn't matter what recipe, or how long or short the story...let's share "a dish of kindness".

In the meantime,

“There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”
                                                             
                                                                            Kenneth Grahame, "The Wind in the Willows"

Wendy