Delivering kindness
Mary Ripley of Charlottetown is a goodwill ambassador on (two) wheels
The loaf of bread came out of nowhere.
The surprise — and tasty — home-baked offering was left hanging from my mailbox with no indication of its origin.
Mary Ripley, I later discovered, would prefer it that way.
The Charlottetown woman with a heart of gold doesn’t want any fuss made over her generous spirit.
Ripley explained that she selected my home for the simple reason that my 11-year-old son Jack, sitting on the front porch humming a tune, caught her attention as she rode by on her bicycle.
“He seemed to have music in him,” she observed warmly.
And, for any number of reasons that catch her fancy, Ripley has dropped off loaf after loaf at one home or another.
Read More : http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2011-10-07/article-2763937/Delivering-kindness/1
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