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Nov 13, 2011

"Shine one corner of the world -- just one corner." --Shunryu Suzuki

Celebrating World Kindness Day

Today is World Kindness Day, and we thought you'd enjoy this real-world story of spreading smiles. "'Right on. This is my kind of protest,' he says while going past me. I hadn't thought of it way before. But perhaps it is a protest -- for lack of smiles in the world. About 15 of us gathered earlier today to create poster boards that we would proudly hold up on busy street intersections of San Francisco. The posters would say simple things like 'Smile' or 'Smile Anyway' or 'Spare a smile?' or 'Smile, it's Free.' We weren't doing this as a part of any organization but rather as friends and well-meaning citizens of the world. After our morning creative sessions, we split up into teams of four and spread out over various intersections on San Francisco's Van Ness Road."