the making of a kookie...

This morning, as I walked the dog, I witnessed the Sheriff serving one of my neighbors.  I am not sure what he served them, but I do know the neighbor has been having some very hard times.  Their spouse was recently put in a nursing home, and I am not sure what this did to the income for the household, or how the spouse living in the apartment is handling the stress.  They used to walk their dog about the same time I walked mine in the morning, but I haven't seen them for some time, and my dog doesn't act like he hears them anymore.  Perhaps they walk the back part of the apartments now. 

So, this is not really a kookie, but more of a reminder of my circumstances.  I may feel like things are closing in on me with school, my health, and finances, but obviously this neighbor is going through way more than me.  Perhaps this is one of the ingredients needed to make a karma kookie for someone else. 

Today's little Kookie

A team member for one of my CASA kids is visiting them this week.  The team member sent me pictures of the child, knowing how long it had been since I had seen this child.  They are also bringing me back a picture the child drew for me.  I took some of the pictures, cropped them, and made them just look better, then printed them out.  I stuck them in a photo book I am sending the sibling, since they are not together.  It is good all 'round.  I felt good being able to see the child; being able to know someone else was out there who cared as much as I did about this child; and being able to share the photos with the sibling is all too cool! 

It was a peanut butter fork pressed kookie for me!

Introduction: What is a karma kookie?

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A karma kookie is what one gets back for deeds they have done in the past.  They can be soooo good, like grandma's homemade chocolate chip cookies, or a Starbucks peanut butter cookie, or...they can be filled with rotten nuts, made from old chocolate chips, or simply be burnt.  The choice is always yours.

When one does a good deed, or is just kind in a small instance during the long 24 hour day, there will be a karma kookies somewhere in the future.  The same goes for doing something negative, like cutting someone off in traffic, or seeing someone could use some assistance at the grocery store yet ignoring the person, as you don't want to get involved.  There will be a kookie for you too.  We have the power to determine if we are going to get well loved, favorite, kookies, or burnt, rotten, kookies.  

I am 48 this year, and I have seen enough in this short life to know this is true.  I have seen people who were kind at the store, and then when they get to ring out their articles, suddenly they find one was on sale which was not marked.  Surprise!  A karma kookie immediately.  But, sometimes they are not immediate, and sometimes they are made over time, until we have a plateful, which we can then pass around to others to share.  Some come in slowly, as they take longer to bake.  

I have also witnessed individuals who were rude or ignorant of someone else's need, and then learned of their burnt karma kookie coming to them in the form of an accident, a disagreement with someone dear to them, or loss of money. It goes both ways, and it is simple common sense, not magical thinking, or a religion. 

If you have an outward appearance of helping people, even small gestures, your inner appearance will shine as a kind person.  People see this! It is the "first impression" we give people.  Whether we are aware of it or not, it is there.

Have you ever met someone who looked well groomed, handsome or pretty, on the outside, but just didn't care for them?  This is the "first impression" working.  If you don't care for the person, then most likely you are a kind person, and you don't see this in the individual. The opposite is true as well, thieves know thieves, or the old story of a "band of thieves" hiding out together: people who are unkind, looking out for only themselves are attracted to people like them.  If they meet a kind person, their first thought is what can they get from this person, and if they find the person without anything they can take to make them richer or more powerful, then they have no need for the kind person.

Think about this, and share your karma kookie experiences, whether personal or witnessed.  

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Go out and grab some good karma kookies  for yourself!  

Diggin' for kookies!