When I was shopping a few months ago , I saw a man trying to get people to donate(捐赠)to a very well-known charity(慈善团体)for children. I1to him that I can't donate money any more2my bank account(账户)having some problems last year. It was a3time and took months to get back our money.4, I noticed the man was hungry and cold, so I offered him a(n)5 in the nearby restaurant.

    Last week I6home on a really hot day. My husband Stewart was at the table with a person from a Charity having a7. We talked for a while and then I said, “I8you!” and he looked at me in surprise and said, “Oh, you're the lovely lady that9me a big lunch and drinks when I was at  10trying to get people to donate.” We both laughed and we had a little 11.

    He told me that he had let the organizers know about this lovely woman 12him out on a cold day. He said 13was so unexpected. I was so 14to see him again, sitting in my home. My act had really 15him for the kindness of it and I loved the fact that Steward had 16him in out of the heat for a cold drink.

    In our daily life, maybe we 17know how we18people when we do good things. But in fact, 19we do does affect others, for it is a lovely 20. Kindness is so catching (感染力的).

    A few years ago, I was with a close friend in a grocery store in California. As we walked along the aisle (过道), we became 1of a mother with a small boy going in the opposite direction. The woman don't noticed us because she was so 2 with her child, who 3 to eagerly pull items off the lower shelves. As the mother became more and more annoyed, she started to 4 at her son and progressed to shaking him by the arm.

    At this point my friend spoke up. A wonderful mother of three, she had probably 5 in her life6 any child so harshly(严厉地). I 7 my friend would give this woman a serious8 about the effect of this kind of behavior on the boy. However to my9 my friend said, “What a(n)10little boy. How old is he?” The woman answered, “He's three.” My friend went on to say how11 he seemed and how her own three children12in the grocery store, pulling things off shelves. “He seems so bright,” my friend said. A(n)13smile came to the woman's face. She said, “Yes, he's very smart,14 sometimes he wears me out.” My friend responded, “ They can do that; they're so15.

    As we16 away, I heard the mother speaking more17to the boy about getting home and cooking his dinner. “We'll have your favorite foods,” she told him.

    How 18my friend achieved harmony in the situation! Really, although sometimes it's necessary to 19someone physically from hurting another person, more often it is helpful that we show love and 20to those lost in anger, allowing them to remember their own tenderness(温柔).

    When my wife, Jane, and I were 16, we were in the same class. About a week before Thanksgiving Day, we found out that our teacher Edward was having some1challenges. We wanted to do something to help, so as a class we2to gather food, clothing and gifts to3his family had a good Thanksgiving Day.

    When Jane told her family about our plan, her mother was4. Together they searched their house for things they could5. Her mother went to the kitchen,6a big turkey and saying, "Thanksgiving Day won't be7without a turkey dinner." To this day, Jane remembers how moved she was by her mother's8.

    Before making our9, we said a prayer of appreciation for the wonderful10to help others. I will never forget the surprised11of our teacher and his wife when they12the door; their four children gathered around them as we handed out the gifts. It was a cold night; we all felt warm inside,13.

    Last month while I was in a meeting, my secretary informed me, "Your high school teacher Mr. Edward is wondering if you could14him a few minutes. He's sitting in your office right now!"

    I left my meeting and went to my office15. My teacher and I hugged and began to16 the last years. He told me he17remembered that cold winter night when we brought the18of Thanksgiving Day to his family. The food and gifts were certainly19, but what warmed his heart that night was to see a group of teenagers who understood the20of Thanksgiving Day.

    On Dec. 6, Kelsey Zwick boarded Flight 588 from Orlando to Philly with Lucy, one of her 11-month-old twin daughters. Lucy was born 11 weeks prematurely （早产）and 1 from severe lung disease as a result of a complication （并发症） of that. The brave baby girl was on oxygen 2 until recently. Today, Lucy needs oxygen at night and while 3— one small good deed reminded Zwick how "4" she and her husband, Yuri, truly are.

    "To the 5 in 2D. I don't know you, but I imagine you saw us 6. I was pushing a stroller （婴儿车）, had a diaper （尿布） bag on my arm and also 7 an oxygen machine for my daughter," Zwick wrote on her Facebook post. "We 8 the plane, sat down in our window seat and made 9 to those around us about having to sit by my yelling-but-happy baby. The flight attendant came over and told me a gentleman was waiting to 10 seats," she wrote. "You were giving up your comfortable, first-class seat to us. Not able to 11 tears, I cried my way up the 12 while my daughter Lucy 13! She felt it in her bones too... real, pure, goodness. I smiled and thanked you as we switched but didn't get to 14 you properly," the mom continued.

    "So… thank you. Not just for the seat itself but for 15. For seeing us and realizing that maybe things are not 16 easy. For deciding you wanted to show a random act of 17 to us. I can't wait to tell Lucy someday. In the meantime... we will pay it 18."

    Zwick's story touched the hearts of many, giving rise to 19 comments on the post that has since been 20 over 164,000 times.

My cousin and I took a trip by rail across Canada from west to east. Before starting out, we spent a couple of days in Vancouver, admiring the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (sight). Then we arose early to take the train to Lake Louise, passing through the Canadian Rockies. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (see) from the train window, the mountains and forests looked {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (mass). We spent the night near the lake, where the blue water literally took our breath away, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} headed to Jasper the next morning. The beautiful scenery convinced us it was the most awesome journey we {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (take). From Jasper, we boarded the train bound {#blank#}6{#/blank#} Toronto. One of our first stops was in Edmonton, which {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (be) home to many shopping malls. We never anticipated seeing such an open country until the train headed across the Great Prairie. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} amazed us most were a bunch of farms covering two wheat-growing provinces. The train thundered on, through the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (roll) hills in Ontario. It was {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (true) enjoyable to watch the red maple leaves outside the window. After four days, we reached Toronto.

My writing career began at the age of ten. That year, my mother gave me my first journal to help me deal with the 1 of my grandmother's death. In many ways, my grandmother was the 2 behind my own writing career. 

When she was alive, my grandmother had 3 much emotional pain, but she also knew that writing was her key to 4 . While growing up in Galicia, Poland, during World War I, she 5 both her parents, and then had to care for herself and her eight-year-old sister. She found solace (慰藉) in journal writing. 

Many years after her death, I 6 her journal and read every word. The void(空虚感) she had left in my life became stronger as the years progressed and I had my own health issues to 7 , such as being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 47. My 8 caused me to write down my grandmother's life story, based on the 9 of her journal. Although at times the writing was 10 , it did bring me close to her once again and help me more 11 understand her many hardships. 

Keeping journals has helped me 12 emotionally. Whether you're 13 by change, loss or pain, finding the time to write is 14 to the healing process. So why not 15 your pen and write down whatever comes to your mind?