Today I share a short episode after feeling weighed down by the news, especially events in Lebanon where I worked for eight years as I worry about former colleagues, the country, and the stray animals and pets left behind.
I reflect on an email from writer Sahil Bloom about a newspaper story in which a florist handed out coffee to people waiting outside a funeral home on a cold night, a gesture that deeply moved a mother mourning her 16-year-old son, illustrating the lesson to “just do the thing” you can do.
Over the years, I have tried to do something similar, picking up trash on Lebanese beaches and elsewhere, feeding stray cats and dogs in Lebanon and Iraq, and continuing similar small efforts at home in Canada, emphasizing that even unseen impacts matter and encouraging listeners to act, not for recognition, but to leave places better than they found them.
You can find Sahil Bloom's article here: Just Make the Coffee | The Curiosity Chronicle
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