Compassion footprint...

By Vichara

These days there is a great deal of emphasis in recognizing our “carbon footprint” in this world and try to reduce it. I think the same kind of principles can be applied to increase our “compassion footprint” in the world. As we do little things to lesson the carbon footprint (i.e. using reusable water bottles, fluorescent light bulbs, etc) likewise we can do little things to increase our compassion footprint. Like be more forgiving of yourself and others, telling someone you love and care about them for no apparent reason, help someone that looks lost and discover the answer together, hold the door for one more person, make a phone call to someone just to tell them how much they mean to you. You get the picture. Reduce carbon, increase compassion.

cavalcade • \kav-ul-KAYD\ • noun
1 a : a procession of riders or carriages * b : a procession of vehicles or ships
2 : a dramatic sequence or procession : series

Example Sentence:
The crowds cheered and waved as the cavalcade of fire trucks rolled through the streets along the parade route.

Did you know?
When "cavalcade" was first used in English, it meant "a horseback ride" or "a march or raid made on horseback." Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, used it this way in his 1647 History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England : "He had with some Troops, made a Cavalcade or two into the West." From there came the "procession of riders" meaning and eventual applications to processions in a broader sense. "Cavalcade" came to English via French from the Old Italian noun "cavalcata," which in turn came from an Old Italian verb, "cavalcare," meaning "to go on horseback." Ultimately, these words came from the Latin word "caballus," meaning "horse."