Day 18 - Doing an art project with women at a group home

"It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich."
---Josh Billings

Today, on Yom Kippur, my youngest daughter and I went to a group home for people who are mentally-challenged. It was a nice house in a quiet suburban neighborhood. We did a very simple art project with them -- making a colorful chain of construction paper links. All it involved was glueing and linking strips of different colored construction paper.

I was touched by their enthusiasm even though it was a hard project for some of them; by their smiles even though it didn't seem like they had all that much to smile about; and by their kindess towards us and appreciation of our coming there even though we hadn't done much (and were there for an hour or less).

I left feeling very fortunate to have the skills and abilities that I do, as well as to be able to live in a house with my family. I was thinking about how there are ways to feel "rich" without having a lot of money -- and as I drove away I was feeling very rich in some of those ways!