11 Last Wishes - 3rd edition

*I mean openly offering your talents to your neighbors for free;
… and smiling at strangers when you pass them by;
… and giving away whatever excess food or possessions you happen to have;
… and cleaning up a neighbor’s yard while they are on vacation;
… and sprucing up your local park or vacant lot or Rec-Center;
… and coming together in small groups to go forth & serve your local poor;
… and engaging in frequent & radical (& anonymous) “Random Acts of Kindness”.
Yes, it is true that real & intimate Community seems to be dying in many towns &
neighborhoods, and yet it is definitely far from dead. Indeed, nothing – no matter how
influential or callous the person, no matter how strict or unjust the law, and no matter how
corrupt or ineffective the government – can ever stop you from exercising & enlivening
your innate Right to live in a community overflowing with Harmony & Happiness.
And yet if you want to have such a fulfilling life, then you are the one who must
do its rebuilding … and it is my sixth “last wish” that you commence doing so today.
“I always wondered why somebody didn‟t do something about that.
… And then I realized: I am somebody.” ~ Lilly Tomlin
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