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The Kindness Report #18: A Routine Food Delivery Turned Into an Extraordinary Act of Kindness

It was a routine food delivery. The kind that happens a thousand times a day in every city, in every apartment building, in every life that’s too busy to cook on a Tuesday evening. The delivery executive handed over the… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #17: What the Neighbours Couldn’t See Beyond Debbie’s Yard

Debbie’s lawn had been growing out of control for a while. That much was visible from the street. But what wasn’t visible (what you couldn’t know just by driving past) was everything else that had piled up alongside the grass…. Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #16: What Happened at This Graduation Left Everyone in Tears

In May 2022, just after his eighth-grade year, a 14-year-old boy from Kansas City named Dylan Mwaniki was diagnosed with renal medullary carcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of Stage 4 kidney cancer. Doctors told his family he had maybe… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #14: He Called a Restaurant to Order His Dog’s Last Meal

There’s a decision that every dog owner dreads from the moment they bring a puppy home. You don’t talk about it much. You try not to think about it. But somewhere in the back of your mind, you know it’s… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #12: Davis Roethler Doesn’t Just Wash Windows, He Saves the Businesses Behind Them

Davis Roethler shows up with a squeegee and an offer: let me clean your windows, no charge. For a restaurant owner already stretched thin on margins, already watching costs eat into everything, already quietly wondering how long they can keep… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #9: She Picked Up a Pencil at 70. At 99, She’s Still Going

There’s a kind of lie we’ve all absorbed somewhere along the way, so quietly that most of us don’t even notice it’s there. It’s the one that tells you there’s a right time to start something, and once that window… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #8: A Bus Didn’t Stop, But Five Kids Did Something About It

A school bus full of kids, around forty of them, just making its way home like any other day, nothing unusual, just another routine ride that no one would remember later, and then in the middle of all that normalcy,… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #3: A Human Chain in Kazakhstan, and Seven Dogs Refused to Leave Each Other

Every week, while putting this together, I find myself thinking the same thing before I even start writing. There is no shortage of noise in the world right now. And somewhere in the middle of all that, it becomes very… Continue Reading →

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