"Practice random acts of kindness" is a catchy little phrase. It is also nonsense, for there should be nothing random about the decision to be kind. THE SEEDS WE SOW: A Story of the Greatest Kindness offers historical proof that it is the most powerful of all decisions.

This book tells the story of the intertwined lives of Dr. George Washington Carver, Vice President Henty Agard Wallace, and Nobel Laureate Norman E. Borlaug. It shows how their kindnesses were passed on and enhanced across generations.

In his quest to help feed poor people, George Washington Carver was not influential because he was the "peanut man." Rather, he changed the world by bringing the Beatitudes to life in his Tuskegee laboratory. His prot