Editorial by Terry Forde
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”– Aesop
Have you ever thought about where the word kind came from? It is a very old word that we’ve been using in some form or another for more than a thousand years.
The root word is kin, which means family, as in kindred, or my kinfolk, or just my kin. To be family was to be kinned, and over the centuries it was contracted to kind.
So kindness literally means “like family.” In practical terms, it means to regard all of humankind as belonging to one great family, one great kinship – and to treat one another accordingly.
