#small kindness

[vanpeltfoto]

Sometimes the world feels harsh and indifferent — and then you come across a sign like this.

A seal, resting. Monitored. Protected. Given a name by someone who cared enough to write it in pen:

“Benny the Seal”

For a brief moment, the universe feels a little kinder than I expect it to be. And that's when loves comes to me. True beauty.

(Photo: d.)

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[d3n1zet]

feeding the stray cats every day has become my little routine… they wait for me now, and it feels like the purest kind of friendship. ✨🍂

[orlissa]

I'm trying to love people. Sometimes they make it really hard.

...But sometimes they make it really easy.

[catucino]

from two years ago. i wasn’t feeling great so my partner & i went on a drive and found this starbucks hidden away that we didn’t even know was there, and they had this whole board of handwritten post-its with lovely messages like this. i still have this note and have it displayed on our lounge cabinet. little things like this really do matter. ♡

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

Small Kindnesses ~ Danusha Lameris

The Path to Kindness, edited by James Crews

[fairerhousethanprose]

Small Kindnesses I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.”

Danusha Laméris

[kazifatagar]

Malaysians say even small tips like RM2–RM5 can make a difference for riders.

“Is RM5 Tip Too Little? Malaysians Debate Value of Small Kindness to Riders”