Today’s prompt, “Kind,” brought to mind one of my favorite scenes from Kurt Vonnegut’s magic/real God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Eliot Rosewater, head of the Rosewater Foundation and active alcoholic, is so revered by the denizens of Rosewater, Indiana that a new mom has asked him to baptize her newborn twins. So Eliot is imagining what he will say to them, and he comes up with this: “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies–God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”