Hugs, and where to give them…

Hugs make the world a better place to live...

It was about a month or two ago that I mentioned in passing that people need twelve hugs a day to stay emotionally & spiritually healthy. Remember that?

Since then, I’ve gotten a bit of a landslide of mail suggesting different ways you can get your quota in…see what you think:

• Go to the produce department at King’s or Marketplace – you see everyone you know & they’re always glad to see you! – AW

• Holding hands at the Palace Theater counts as a hug. – DM

• When someone sends me an e-mail that says something like, “Just thinking about you!” it always feels like a hug to me. – AST

• Dropped my second grade daughter off at school, and she gave me a hug goodbye. Then, when she was walking away, she waved and said, “I’ll miss you today, Papa!” That felt like a second hug. I’m countin’ it! – SP

• Whenever I go to a funeral here on the island, and everyone is holding each other after the service, it makes me so happy I live here where we care for each other so much. – TM

• Right after you put that 12-hug thing in the Update, someone came up behind me at Haley’s and put their hands over my eyes and said, “Guess who?” So, does that count as a hug? I think it does. – JT

• Pretending to do math when you’re really adding up how much you like someone…that’s kind of an intellectual hug. If you like them a lot, it looks like this. – RTK

• Hey, I read that thing you wrote in the Update, and was glad to see it. I get to hug my family each morning before school and every night before we go to bed, and hug people I run into in the street, and see when I go to my favorite three coffee places in town, and at church. The hugs are there if you look for them. Thanks for printing that. Good idea! – WH

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