I Think Of My Sister When I Think Of Kindness

THE ACTRESS TELLS WHO HOW, WHEN SHE LEFT SMYRNA, GEORGIA FOR NEW YORK CITY MORE THAN THREE DECADES AGO, LISA WAS THERE WITH OPEN ARMS

- Julia Roberts

I have always believed kindness has many forms – some quite obvious, some more subtle. Some are an exact shape and some kindness, I have found, is more reaching, surrounding, like an embrace. I think of my sister Lisa often when I think of kindness, but specifically something she did when we were both teenagers. Teenagers. Those historically edgy, self-centred creatures, blind to all needs but their o