kindness
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A Prayer for the Comment Sections of the World
While I’ve always known that internet trolls are a thing, and that the anonymity that comes with a screen allows people to say things—horrible things—that they most likely wouldn’t say when put face to face with someone, I have recently been floored by the sheer number of opinions that are thrown every which way at… Continue reading
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Your Kindness is Never Small
Sometimes when I think about how big the world is and how many people are in it, and then how big the universe is and how much left there is to discover, I feel very small. I am just one person, in one place on one planet, in one galaxy in the universe. And when… Continue reading
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31 Good Things that Happened in March
It has been a WHILE. The last time I posted one of these was in July of last year! I’ll admit, they can be hard to keep up with. So at first I just put it off for one month, but then I put it off for…a lot of months. But I thought this was… Continue reading
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Tiny Perfect Moments of 2021 (List-cember #4)
In February of this year, the movie The Map of Tiny Perfect Things was released on Amazon Prime. I mentioned it in my January & February favorites and I have watched it a handful of times since. While the concept is similar to that of Groundhog Day, it takes special care to highlight the small,… Continue reading
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30 Good Things that Happened in June
Hello and welcome back to another edition of All the Good Things. It’s been a couple months, but we’re back! Let’s dive right in. . 1) Days after getting married, this woman donated a kidney to her new husband’s ex-wife 2) This boy got an incredible souvenir: 3) This 94 year old woman received her high… Continue reading
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31 Good Things that Happened in March
Hello and welcome back to another edition of All the Good Things, a monthly series where I highlight all the good things (get it?) that happen in each 30-day (or so) span. I hope it can be a reminder that amongst all the well known bad, there is a lot of undercover good happening in our world. Let’s dive… Continue reading
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28 Good Things that Happened in February
Hello and welcome back to another edition of All the Good Things, a monthly series where I highlight all the good things (get it?) that happen in each 30-day (or so) span. I hope it can be a reminder that amongst all the well known bad, there is a lot of undercover good happening in our world. Let’s dive… Continue reading
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31 Good Things that Happened in January
Hello and welcome back to another edition of All the Good Things, a monthly series where I highlight all the good things (get it?) that happen in each 30-day (or so) span. I hope it can be a reminder that amongst all the well known bad, there is a lot of undercover good happening in our world. Let’s dive… Continue reading
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5 Things to Wish for at Midnight (List-cember #9)
Well my friends, we have made it! Against all odds, we have made it to the last day of 2020. The final hours of a trying, brutal, relentless year that none of us saw coming. And now we are going to start something new. It might not look new, it might not look easy, and… Continue reading
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17 Things that Inspired Me This Year (List-cember #5)
No matter the year, no matter the season, there are always going to be things that inspire us. Things that make us want and dream or fight and persevere, things that make us laugh or dance or cheer or all of the above. My personal favorite are the things that spark your interest, perhaps in… Continue reading
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