They will be things that she said to me in passing as day to day chit chat and also more profound things - but they will all be verbatim and so preserve the essence that was Kim.

I will add more as I resurrect them from my MSWord files...  and of course if you have any 'Kim-isms' do please let me have them at kimsworld@rogersheldon.com for this very special page.  

"Touch and physical comfort is the most important thing you can do for someone in distress."      September 2001.

"Piggybacking is a natural part of the creative process...to build on the ideas of others.  You see or hear something, and it fires you off on a new path.  I see piggybacking as a game of leapfrog... it's not like one is "on" the other like a parasite... it's turn taking... getting ideas from each other to spring forward with, and that is quite different to plagiarism."  September 2001.

“I'm thinking we should aim for an ideal, no matter how we are held back by our own inabilities to take all the steps at once - as part of the life game.

I think you are familiar with the Chicken Soup for the Soul books. I was thinking of some kind of list where people exchange stories of kindness.

‘Waves of Goodness’ or something... I haven't thought of a name yet.

We could get lots of people on it by passing out the pebbles with an explanatory card with the web address on it.

So the pebble is what it always was... a reminder of kindness and that someone cares.... yet it will now also bring them to a way of continued sharing.

We would have to dream up a promotional description of it for the list.

I know that Mary would like something like that... she loves the chicken soup books...

I have the idea, it's piggybacking on an existing theme, but it needs fleshing out.

‘Light way’, how about we call it something along those lines... or ‘Points of Light’?

Remember I told you about what Colman says about doing Taiji in a group? How it's as if one person had a candle in a room there is a slight glow but if lots of people are in the room and all with a little glowing candle there is a brighter light.

One star - many stars.

I like candles.

This list is for all those who believe that humankind is essentially good.  Tell us your story of kindness and become another point of light creating..... there is a glimmer of something there.

Ohhhhhhhhh Glimmer! Glow - we can use that word too... call the stories ‘glimmers’.

From a glimmer to a radiating light of goodness.

Well OK, just throwing out ideas... I want to use the word ‘hope’ in there somehow.

Glimmers of hope for humankind.

Glimmers of hope and inspiration that will uplift the heart.”                2001

I'm just thinking wi need to have lots of ways of conveying our information for the many learning styles out there.  The point is that people need input on how their actions impact on others.  I believe our message could go a long way toward making kids realize they have power to help rather than hurt.  Would you rather be handed all the pieces and be asked to put them together or be handed the whole item and be asked to take it apart?  March 2002