I am sure other DailyGood Quotepak volunteers know this but I suppose I am a "slow-to-glow" little firefly. Last weekend, as I was reviewing my completed assignments from July, I finally asked myself. "Well, if these be-the-change ideas you come up with each week are so good, why don't you use thm on yourself?"
So I set myself the task to try at least one taste of my own medicine...and it was sooo hard! I simply had to "connect with someone who might be isolated" and found myself in the middle of the perfect opportunity. House sitting for a family whose elderly mother lives in a back-yard cottage and was not going on the weekend trip. Each day I would come up with some reason to knock on her door and invite her to spend some time with me...a cup of tea, just saying hello, just checking to see how you are. And then all day, I would procrastinate, fidget and find a reason for "in a little while".
On my last day house sitting "Grandma Heather" called me to see how I was doing! She thought I might be lonely :-) I asked her is she would like to share some tea but she declined.
I just sent her a card thanking her for her kindness to surprise her, but I wish I had been braver and risked more than I did.