More random acts of kindness

I am still struggling to get back on-track after losing so much writing and researching time this summer. Okay, I let myself be distracted yesterday by the football games and will take some time off tonight to watch my Eagles defeat the Bears. (Sorry, David.) Keeping to my promise to cheer us up at a time when we desperately need it, here is a post of mine from several years ago that includes two acts of kindness by strangers that meant the world to the recipients.
On September 7, 1151, Geoffrey le Bel, the Count of Anjou, died suddenly upon his return from a Paris conference with the French king; it must have vexed him greatly that his death would be seen as validation of the prophecy of Bernard of Clairvaux, who’d warned he would die within a month. September 7th was the date of another Angevin event of significance; for in 1191, Geoffrey’s grandson Richard defeated Saladin at the battle of Arsuf. And on September 7th, 1533, the only “good Tudor” was born, Elizabeth, who would become a great queen.
And here are two very touching stories of random acts of kindness. If you read these stories, it will make you feel better about the human race and remind us all that we don’t always know how deeply we can impact the lives of strangers.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/03/us/nort...
http://writeshesays.wordpress.com/201...