We had the final meeting of this eight session "Opening up" group last night.  I wrote last week about the seventh session.  This last meeting ran a day later than usual because of a clash with a family birthday. 

Yesterday evening I wasn't feeling as...

 "No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."  John Donne

In a yesterday's blog post "Cooperative behaviour cascades in social networks",...

"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."      Aesop

"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will."     Einstein

Our kindness (and unkindness) ripples outwards.  A group of people - or a broader society - survives because...