Gratitude in More Ways Than One

Click the link to get the full story behind the Kindness Cookie recipe – scroll down to see how an angry act of defiance can transform cookies into political acts of generosity and human kindness.

“With flour, chocolate, oatmeal, butter, eggs and a precious family recipe, I baked an extra large batch of cookies at home. At the office, volunteers wrapped the goodies as gifts and took them to the street, offering copies to anyone who was brave enough to look us in the eye or say hello. In our own little way, it was our radical act of kindness – giving without any expectation of financial return.” from An Ecology of Gratitude, page 84.