It's National Do a Favor for a Grouch Day: Or, How to Have Compassion for Curmudgeons
Posted on February 16, 2012 in Worry Wise
Yes, there is a holiday for everything. February 16th is National Do a Favor for a Grouch Day. What? The last thing we think to do when we've been hit in the gut by inadvertently walking through some one else's emotional target practice, is, "wow, what can I do for that person?" But, we may just find that the favor we do for a prickly person, is really a favor we are doing for ourselves. Here is a piece I wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer about compassion meditation.