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November 3, 2023

Small Kindnesses

A held door, a remembered name, a message sent for no reason.

Kindness rarely arrives as a grand gesture. It shows up as a held door, a remembered name, a message sent for no reason at all. These small acts cost us almost nothing, yet they are the mortar of a life lived among other people. We underestimate them because they are quiet. But quiet things accumulate. Do enough of them and you become the kind of person others are glad to see.