Okay ... this isn't a huge, earth-shattering type of kindness, but to me sometimes those small, everyday kindnesses are the ones that stick with us - maybe because they're so easy to accomplish by the average person.  This morning, our building managers stood in the lobby of our downtown office building and handed out red and pink long-stemmed roses for Valentine's Day.  What a beautiful and thoughtful way to start a day!  The rose handed to me was a lovely, dark, bubblegum pink and waved to me on my desk throughout my very busy and stressful hours.  Each time I looked at it or smelled its soft fragrance, I was delivered back to the smile and warm "Hello!" and "Happy Valentine's!" that accompanied its delivery upon my arrival at work.   It is a kindness that will be remembered all weekend long as well, since I took the rose home with me.  I started thinking about all the people who received those Valentine's roses this morning.  I thought of how many different ways their days might have been kindly and gently altered.  I imagined that some of the recipients might have had a rough morning even before they left home, or a stressful drive in through morning traffic, or had been feeling ill from the common winter ailments, or felt sadness at being alone, or had arrived in our building with the hopes of a new job - yet they received a small, but precious gift.   The gift of one rose and the kindness that went with it most certainly lifted my spirits, I can imagine it did the same for others.