In support of the importance of, and need for, kindness toward ourselves, each other, all life forms, and our beautiful planet, this morning we offer this poem:

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

St. Mary Lake and Wild Goose Island, Glacier National Park – photo by kanonsky, bigstockphoto.com