Seeds of Kindness…: …In a Time of Crisis

By Jim Boeglin

Kindness was a lesson worth learning as a child in the 1950s and 1960s—and it is more relevant than ever as the world confronts the COVID-19 pandemic and racial unrest.

Jim Boeglin draws on the lessons he learned as a child and throughout adulthood to spread that message in this book of poetry.

Much of the collection was written during “shelter in place” restrictions in the spring and summer of 2020, which was also when protests raged throughout the United States to prevent racial injustice in the aftermath of the brutal murder of George Floyd.

It was a time of stress, sorrow, and pain in the world—especially for minorities, and the millions of coronavirus victims and the families of those infected. It was also a challenging time for first responders, health care workers, and others on the front lines of treatment.

Ponder the impact of being kind during a time of global crisis and plant seeds to spread positivity as you read this collection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Sep 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781480894075

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This is Jim’s third book on the subject of Trump and/or Trumpism. As a retired attorney, he is familiar with the importance of the rule of law. It is the most important concept distinguishing democracy from autocracy. Donald Trump has been a consistent abuser of the rule of law.

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-9406-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-9407-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020914764

Archway Publishing rev. date: 08/28/2020

DEDICATION

This book of poetry is dedicated to the Sisters of Saint Benedict, the nuns of the Immaculate Conception Monastery in the small town of Ferdinand, Indiana. They were my teachers through twelve years of elementary and high school. I didn’t always buy into their religious dogma, but with only minor exceptions, these dedicated nuns demonstrated by example what it meant to be kind, and taught the importance of kindness and respect to their young students. I feel privileged to have been one of their students.

In addition to providing school teachers for many of the elementary schools and Catholic