Radical Optimism

This so perfectly worded. I am grateful to add this to my collection of dynamic messages nd share it with others. As a child I was taught to act without thought of outcome, but it was barren and I gravitated to a period of alters, sounds and sacred objects. But it was empty. Sometimes I hold an object or a sound as a symbol. When I deliver food to my elderly neighbor, when I listen as we walk, when I free the bird from the netting, Last week a woman smiled and spoke in the grocery aisle. That smile awakened me to my tense expression. I went back and thanked her for that smile and greeting, and she glowed. I think these smallest gestures are practice without outcome that keep us alive in the present.