[Savvymusician]

My comment doesn't have anything to do with the story itself but with its headline. You see that phrase on bumper stickers on cars. I confess I've never really understood it. Why is "random acts" of kindness supposed to be so cool? I've always thought that CONSISTENT acts of kindness are the mark of a really truly caring individual of a good, solid Christian character.

[leslie_is_cooking]

"Consistent acts of kindnesss" are the mark of a caring individual, but in these times when so many acts of "kindness" or "charity" seem to be nothing more than an opportunity for the person doing good to promote himself as the focus of the act, "random" acts of kindness implies anonymous acts that bring no kudos or notoriety to the person doing good.

A random act of kindness gives nothing more to the person doing good than the quiet self-knowledge that they have done the right thing.

For example, I could see our current First Lady quietly giving assistance to someone and not only not publicizing it, but going out of her way to make certain it was not found out by the press. Could you see her predecessor doing anything she thought was charitable and not issuing a press statement informing the world what a noble and giving person she is?