What a year….

Valentine’s Day 2023 we posted our first Practical Kindness video. The year has been full of experiments – lists of things to do to help each other out, reaching out to hear people’s stories, test podcasts, and kind art. It’s been a year of getting to know people and learning how things work.

The thing about learning, however, is that if you keep shoving information in without taking the time to pause and reflect, you don’t absorb much. So to celebrate one year of Practical Kindness, we are going to take a break. We are going to take that moment to pause. To look at what has been fun, and what has been hard. What has gone right, and what really didn’t. There are so many potential ideas and directions to go, but we believe in making things better, not necessarily bigger, and we don’t want to change things just for the sake of changing them.

So come February 14th we are going to pause storytelling and indulge in the generous kindness of ceramic artist Ken Omundson, who has recently delivered an entire second box of kindness mugs to be given out to those who could use a boost. We are going to mull options, make deliveries, and hopefully collect a smile or two. And then we will see what direction the way forward will take.

Thank you for joining us on the first stage of our journey, and we hope you will continue noticing and spreading kindness where you are.