In support of the importance of, and need for, kindness toward ourselves, each other, all life forms, and our beautiful planet at this time of so much polarization, 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

Water Cascade, Zlate Mesto, Czech Republic – photo by ppart, bigstockphoto.com