Posted November 18, 2009

Vegetarian is to vegetables, as Humanitarian is to X. Define X.

I am very thankful for innumerable blessings and great good fortune. Happiness in life starts from having a grateful heart.

Many years ago I sat next to a young woman on a flight to NYC, probably going to toyfair, and she told me a story of generosity and grassroots humanitarianism that I have never forgotten.

She had purchased a really nice pair of gloves for her brother for his birthday, around Thanksgiving, and for some reason had to return them. They were fairly expensive leather gloves, and before she left the store with the money, she went to the basement, Filene’s legendary basement as I recall, where she saw a table of Day-Glo orange gloves on sale for $1/pair. 

 

Of course they were cheap because who wants Day-Glo orange gloves in the middle of the city? They are good for duck or deer hunting, maybe, so you don’t end up being stuffed and mounted. But in the middle of Boston or NYC? Not so much.

To Be Continued . . . 

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