Kindness begets kindness. So, wanted to create a space to share and amplify stories of kindness with the hope that it inspires a chain reaction.

Cameron Kuykindall

As the leader of a newly-founded nonprofit organization, that isn’t yet a 501(c)3, the hardest days are our first days of operation in which we have to be significantly creative in how we secure and spend money for our non-profit initiatives. The mindset of our team, as experienced with our latest event is: 1) If we have a mustard seed of faith, God will move our greatest mountains, and 2) We can be bougie on a budget. This leads to directly answering the question. The kindest thing people have done for me is invest in the seed before they saw the crop. Read more>>

Jen Self

Kindness, not niceness, not politeness, but genuine kindness, where a person is making an offering of love and care, is an emotional connection that we all need and crave, and honestly, we receive far too infrequently. Like so many of us, I developed ways of coping with stress, trauma, cultural negation, isolation, and all the things that many of us experience as queer, trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer folks. One of the ways I protected myself was through perfectionism, being hard on myself for mistakes before anyone else could take notice. I have been brutal to myself, mainly when I was younger. No room for mistakes for so much of my life, until I found a therapist, Anna Lyons Roost, LICSW.  Read more>>

Vivien Forsans

I wasn’t always a great student in school; I tended to have good grades in subjects that I deemed interesting and catastrophic ones in subjects I wasn’t into. This tended to annoy many of my professors, but I was incredibly lucky to have a few who believed in me. The teacher that probably had the biggest impact on me and helped me the most is Shira Avni, professor in Film Animation at Concordia University. Read more>>

Chanelle Macnab

There have been many kind gifts bestowed upon me and I always attribute it to a very young understanding of gratitude. The law of attraction, so to speak. The countless acts of kindness that have surrounded my life have always felt like a gift from above, that taught me to be grateful, to stay open to opportunities, to seek out mentors, to continue to improve myself and to dedicate my life to helping others as well. Read more>>

Arleigh (arlay) Turley

In the beginning of my artistic career it was really hard. I felt defeated a lot. I had many tears, and poetic break downs along the way. I was like a broken ballerina. I knew how to dance and I had something to show for myself, but no one would listen, watch, or cared. And it made me break more and more till I couldn’t dance for awhile..I remember crying to my husband who also happens to be my best friend. This one particular time I had just released a new collection of handmade dolls for my art shop and no one was buying my art. I felt so heart broken. I was ready to just give up on being an artist. Read more>>