Maybe they take the dog out for a walk, just as they promised. Maybe they drive you to the airport at 4 a.m. Maybe they get you a really nice birthday gift. These acts of kindness when coming from a ...

Natalie “Swell” Dillon, an avid backpacker who lives in Bishop in California’s Eastern Sierra, completed the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail in 2022. And every year since, the occupational therapist — ...

Holding the door for someone is a nice gesture, but Kansas State University community health specialist Elaine Johannes says there’s a deeper, more impactful practice that benefits both giver and ...

Standing before the mountains of Switzerland, I was struck by how small we are against such vastness. And yet, in that immensity, a single farmhouse light, a village nestled in the valley, or a green ...

Kindness may sound like a luxury in today’s high-takes, deliver-faster, do more with less, margin-tighter world—or worse, weakness. But let’s get real: kindness isn’t soft. It’s one of the most ...

A high desert master-planned community is leaning on kindness as a selling tool to attract home buyers and to create a small-town feeling among people who truly want to get along. At the Silverwood ...

I’ve grown to dislike the word “assimilation.” When we talk about immigration, the better word is “adoption,” and it took a superhero movie to help me understand why. That movie is “Superman.” Like ...