The actual, true experience upon which Endless Acts was started.

After closing my business, the food pantry where I have been volunteering, periodically serves hot meals to its clientele. I happened to be "visiting" the pantry on one of the "hot meal" days and watched as one of the staff leaders moved to his usual place at the head of the room; one that is filled with old card tables covered with paper clothes and plastic cups in order to help transform it into a "dining area".

Before sitting, the leader normally takes out his violin and sings a few songs to the group of "clients" that have assembled, as they wait for their meals to be handed out. On this occasion however, he brought out a mandolin, not his violin. Before he could begin to play however, an older gentlemen, a man that I had not seen at the pantry before, stood from his chair and, what are the odds, reached under the table and opened a display case that was actually housing his own mandolin.

The older gentlemen walked to the front of the room, stood next to the staff leader and began to somehow seamlessly play along with whatever song the staff member chose to play. Not once did this gentleman look down at his fingers, his hands, the mandolin’s frets or strings or even glance at the instrument. He simply smiled, looked out and played beautifully.

This assemblage normally eats politely and once finished with their meals, leaves quietly. It is not a group that responds to many outside influences. So, in order to not be impolite to our surprise musical guest, I started to clap my hands in appreciation. The gentleman bowed with a small gracious nod of his head and began to play another song. One of the clients now looked up at me, smiled and began to softly clap in time to the tune. I smiled back and we both continued clapping.

Suddenly, a small, usually quiet lady, one that I did recognize from previous visits, darts out of her chair and with a smile on her face began to unabashedly dance around the room. Upon seeing this, a long time, elderly volunteer comes walking out of the kitchen singing the words to the song at the top of his lungs and this brought the house down. In a matter of just a few moments, most of the room was clapping or dancing or singing or swaying or just smiling.

When the song reached its final notes, everyone sat back down and completed their meal. This time however, as they left the pantry, they did not just leave in silence as I overheard some telling others  “See you next time” or “Have a good day.”

These people are, for the most part, down on their luck; many are highly educated and just need some guidance or assistance. Their uplifting reaction to the music and all that went on, rippled through the room, was genuine and was appreciated by them in ways in which I really cannot fully relate.

What is important about this series of positive actions is that this experience only occurred because one unknown gentleman decided to bring a mandolin to a food pantry and do one good act; voluntarily play his mandolin at meal time.  That was followed and added too by my simple act of clapping which was added to by one individual gentleman join me in clapping, then a woman deciding to dance and then having one senior volunteer deciding to sing. If the gentleman had not brought his instrument the above would have simply been a dream.

I do not know where the clients of the pantry head off too when they finish their meal and walk out of the door. However, one thing I do know is that these individuals left this time a little happier than they were when they came in.

This is just one small example, as it happened to me, of what EndlessActs.com is all about.

Someone, anyone, deciding to take one positive action, (raise money for a specific charity or honor a person, milstone or event of their choosing) and then subsequently, setting into motion, and most importantly, sharing in a series of others positive actions, the totality of which can be now be "experienced" by all.

Imagine the impact of having the positive acts, large or small, performed by thousands of people honoring their special causes, occasions, milestones, events or individuals…

All recorded here, at Endless Acts.com…Creating a community of positive acts…

Allowing everyone involved to cumulatively "share in and experience" the uplifting “ripple effects” that result from what each of us have personally set into motion…

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