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The Kindness Report #21: The Basketball Star Who Wanted to Be a Police Officer

From the moment Jordan Wilmore started growing, the advice was consistent. You’re 7 foot 3. You should play basketball. You could make millions. Why would you want to do anything else? He heard it his whole life. From coaches, from… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #19: The Four-Year-Old Who Turned Strangers Into Neighbours

Every morning, before most of his neighbors had finished their first cup of coffee, a four-year-old boy named Roman was already at the door. Waiting. Watching. Ready. The garbage truck would rumble past and Roman waved. An Amazon driver slowed… 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 #10: He Listened to a Song on Repeat for 9 Days & The Internet Listened Back

There’s a version of the internet that most of us are pretty tired of. The one that runs on outrage and hot takes and people performing opinions at each other. The one that makes you feel vaguely worse about everything… 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 #7: A Dog Waited… and Strangers Refused to Leave It There

There’s something quietly unsettling about the idea of being left behind without understanding why, and somewhere deep in the wild terrain of New Zealand, a dog lived through exactly that kind of silence, not for a few minutes or hours,… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #5: A Crater on the Moon Was Given a Different Kind of Name

There are some kinds of love that don’t really fit into words, no matter how many times we try to explain them. The kind that quietly becomes part of who you are, that doesn’t end neatly just because time says… Continue Reading →

The Kindness Report #4: A Three-Year-Old Saw a Man Eating Alone… and Did Something About It

This story begins like that. A mother and her three-year-old son had stopped at a McDonald’s in El Reno, Oklahoma, for breakfast. Nothing special about it. Just one of those everyday stops that people make without thinking twice. But while… 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 →

The Kindness Report #2: A Small Moment in 1999… That Found Its Way Back 25 Years Later

Let’s start the same way we did last Saturday, because honestly, not much has changed. The world still feels a little heavy most days. You open the news, scroll for a bit, and it’s the usual mix of conflict, noise,… Continue Reading →

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