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Kindness: Innate, Learned or Shared
By Mary Ellen Hadley

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Science has long pondered this question but recent studies suggest that even infants can show characteristics of kindness. Certainly growing up in an environment that encourages the blessings of kindness can only help to solidify this behavior. In addition to the innate question of kindness, women have long been designated as the kinder sex. This belief has also been revised through several studies, as men are credited with being equally kind. What has not been measured are the variables in the way each sex may offer kindness and the complementary ways men and women may work together to make our world a kinder place.

Several members have suggested we should encourage men to join with us in a more structured way in offering kindness. Can we be kinder by reaching out to those men who wish to make a difference and expand our basic membership to welcome anyone who wishes to make kindness a priority? As a very new member, this would seem to be an important way for our organization to grow and to reach a greater number of others. 

The January Planning Meeting would be a wonderful time to look at this issue and to decide if it is a direction you wish to take. If so, simply welcoming men would require thoughts on how to utilize the power and skills they could offer. (I am sure you aware that men have been supporting Sedona Kind in other ways, so this is not a totally new idea).

​So, let us welcome 2019 with our hearts and minds open to tried and true kindness as well as venturing onto new paths.  Let each day allow us to share, love, and give as we enrich the lives of others while strengthening ourselves.

SedonaKind
PO Box 3059
​Sedona, AZ 86340

SedonaKind meets the 3rd Friday of each Month from September to May. We meet at the Sedona Library in West Sedona at 10:00a.m.  We ask that only fully Covid vaccinated individuals attend. 



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