Kind People are Sharp's Kind of People! by https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31 Welcome! Lets talk kindness. What does kindness mean to you? When has an act of kindness made a difference for you? Do you have a co-worker who is a "kindness all star"? Please share with us your stories, your opinions and celebrate the critical role kindness plays here at Sharp (Tip: your posts are anonymous by default, but you can add your name at the end if you'd like!) en-us 2021-10-25 20:57:35 UTC 2023-03-03 16:49:33 UTC hello@padlet.com Kindness can be as simple as just being fully present with someone else. Giving someone your attention and focus for just a few moments can make all the difference. SBH_SEA https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1868252724 2021-11-04 18:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1868252724 https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870747333 Kindness is genuinely showing respect for others without expecting anything in return]]> 2021-11-05 19:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870747333 Kindness thomashayes2 https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870753630 No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop]]> 2021-11-05 19:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870753630 Kindness means a lot of things. https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870825115 To me, it means self-care: eating well, moving my body, getting enough sleep, and being patient with myself. It extends to giving my best self to others when I can and working to positively affect those around me.]]> 2021-11-05 20:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870825115 In 1984, when Burks was 25 and a young mother living in Arkansas, she would often visit a hospital to care for a friend who had cancer. During one visit, she noticed the nurses would draw straws, afraid to go into one room, its door sealed by a big red bag. She asked why and the nurses told her the patient had Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID), later known as AIDS. On a repeat visit, and seeing the big red bag on the door, Burks decided to disregard the warnings and sneaked into the room. In the bed was a skeletal young man, who told her he wanted to see his mother before he died. She left the room and told the nurses, who said, "Honey, his mother’s not coming. He’s been here six weeks. Nobody’s coming”. Burks called his mother anyway, who refused to come visit her son, who she described as a "sinner" and already dead to her, and that she wouldn't even claim his body when he died. “I went back in his room and when I walked in, he said, "Oh, momma. I knew you’d come", and then he lifted his hand. And what was I going to do? So I took his hand. I said, "I’m here, honey. I’m here”, Burks later recounted. She pulled a chair to his bedside, talked to him, and held his hand until he died 13 hours later. After finally finding a funeral home that would his body, and paying for the cremation out of her own savings, Burks buried his ashes on her family's large plot in Files Cemetery.After this first encounter, Burks cared for other patients who needed her help. She would take them to appointments, obtain medications, apply for assistance, and even kept supplies of AIDS medications on hand, as some pharmacies would not carry them. Burks work soon became well known in the city and she received financial assistance from gay bars, "They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here'd come the money... That's how we'd buy medicine, that's how we'd pay rent. If it hadn't been for the drag queens, I don't know what we would have done", she said.Over the next 30 years (with assistance from her daughter) Burks cared for over 1,000 people and buried more than 40 on her family's plot (most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes). For this, she has been nicknamed the 'Cemetery Angel'. “Someday, I’d love to get a monument that says: This is what happened. In 1984, it started. They just kept coming and coming. And they knew they would be remembered, loved, and taken care of, and that someone would say a kind word over them when they died” - Ruth Coker Burks shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870949830 2021-11-05 23:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870949830 shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870950352 2021-11-05 23:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870950352 shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870950946 2021-11-05 23:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1870950946 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Bjwy3fCLg shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1875758865 2021-11-08 17:07:11 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1875758865 shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1875763536 2021-11-08 17:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1875763536 shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1875815976 2021-11-08 17:25:48 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1875815976 shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1875816943 2021-11-08 17:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1875816943 https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1875954579 2021-11-08 18:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1875954579 Otake, K., Shimai, S., Tanaka-Matsumi, J., Otsui, K., & Fredrickson, B. L. (2006). Happy people become happier through kindness: A counting kindnesses intervention. Journal of happiness studies, 7(3), 361-375. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1820947/pdf/nihms-13827.pdf shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876024882 2021-11-08 18:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876024882 Hutcherson, C. A., Seppala, E. M., & Gross, J. J. (2008). Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectedness. Emotion, 8(5), 720. shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876033150 2021-11-08 18:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876033150 Kindness Boomerang "One Day" https://youtu.be/nwAYpLVyeFU shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876046514 2021-11-08 18:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876046514 Simple Acts of Kindness https://youtu.be/GdYJr03eJjE shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876073357 2021-11-08 18:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876073357 Choose kindness https://youtu.be/PT-HBl2TVtI shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876076602 2021-11-08 19:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876076602 My coworker Marie in SRS RB is one of the kindest, most generous people I know. She is always so sweet to talk to, she helps others out whenever she has a free moment, and really goes above and beyond for both staff and patients. She's a wonderful individual to work with! https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876195311 2021-11-08 19:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1876195311 My Kids are Cultivating Kindness https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1879145357 I am so proud of the kiddos in my life. From taking time to patiently help other children learn skills to taking the elderly neighbor's dog for a walk, they inspire me every day with their acts of kindness. I'm not worried about the future - it's in excellent little hands. ]]> 2021-11-09 18:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1879145357 do the right thing even when no one is looking https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882111682 2021-11-10 18:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882111682 https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882191063 2021-11-10 18:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882191063 Always be KIND... & Mind your MANNERS... https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882280769 Kindness is a universal language that we all understand and should acknowledge. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone. If you find kindness, there is goodness and if you find goodness, you will find magic! As I tell my children "Always be kind, and mind your manners." IMS]]> 2021-11-10 19:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882280769 https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882302951 Sara, you greet each New Hire employee with such a cheerful smile and attitude; instantly making them feel at ease and welcome. Thank you for sharing your kindness with new Sharp employees.]]> 2021-11-10 19:44:48 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882302951 shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882431719 2021-11-10 20:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882431719 shortamy https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882434565 2021-11-10 20:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882434565 https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882565754 2021-11-10 22:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1882565754 Everyday Kindness https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1884813127 It's an easy choice. Be kind!]]> 2021-11-11 18:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1884813127 Be both everyday! jenniferleecordova1 https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1885143976 2021-11-11 21:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1885143976 https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1885465517 2021-11-12 01:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1885465517 https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1887239467 We get so worried about being "pretty". Lets be pretty funny, pretty strong, pretty KIND. Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world, no matter what you look like. (KK)]]> 2021-11-12 18:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1887239467 Comment with a moment you were shown kindness :) I will go first. <3 WHY? Remembering how we FEEL when we are shown kindness will help us choose kindness when it is a little harder. (Like when we need to eat humble pie..... instead of showing we were "right" we might choose humility to show kindness, instead.) https://padlet.com/SBH_SEA/bso5xf513ta90o31/wish/1887358586





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