To the Editor:
I love this peninsula! Yesterday morning while juggling too many bags out to my car at Hannaford, I knocked my fitness tracker bracelet off my wrist without realizing it. When I returned to look for it in the afternoon, I was cautiously hopeful that I’d find it, generally being an optimistic person, but I wasn’t holding my breath.
Now this is the place I have loved from day one. (Even visiting my Godmother, Katy Jackson Sanford 60 years ago!) Someone had found the tracker and taken the time to walk to the service desk, and there it was.
There are endless acts of kindness in this community, large and small. From shared smiles and conversations with friends and strangers throughout all parts of the day, to waves of thank you for letting someone into traffic during the height of tourist season, to the tremendous sharing of resources whether it be a large donation to Lincoln Academy, an unacknowledged drop off of furniture at the CHIP shed at the Carpenter’s Boat Shop, picking up litter along a road so that no one has to see that kind of ugliness, or volunteering at any of the many, many nonprofits that symbolize the caring for each other.
I know that my growing up in Maine has helped me form good values as it has for most of us living here. I am filled with gratitude and I hope I can pass it on and that you will, too!
