“Do the small things!”

This was the motto of Mother Teresa, a tiny woman whose “small” actions had a global impact. I’ve learned through Covid-19 how love is transformational. Perhaps the greatest disease today is not the virus, but the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, alone on Zoom. The pervasive pandemic is the lack of love and charity that has brought us to this this place.

A small act, like giving a stranger a casual smile when entering a the grocery store or an elevator single file, when performed with love, becomes vast. In all the chaos, this message is reverberating … that love and caring are the most important things in the world.

So … when I saw a guy in the dog park this morning with his Labrador, both unleashed and unmasked, I didn’t growl or bark.