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.

Claudia Espinosa

My most important mentor. She was a lawyer who really believed in me and helped me to develop very important policies for my organization. She was the one who pursue me to offer me her support not the other way around. However, more importantly than her professional support, was the way she believed in me. Constantly motivating me and telling me: keep moving forward. Read more>>

Stevie Jablonsky

The kindest gift I’ve ever received came from my daughter, Ellis. Her birth two years ago transformed not just my art, but my entire relationship with creativity. Though I’ve been creating all my life, studying painting, drawing, and design in college, I had always worked small scale, keeping my work primarily for personal use. Ellis shifted my entire perspective on life and brought with her an unexpected freedom – she filled my days with play and crystallized for me what truly matters. Through Ellis, I found the permission to play more with shapes and color, to create more boldly and larger, to embrace my authentic voice, and the confidence to share color and whimsy with others in a new way. Read more>>

Jett Foreman

It has been a dream to be on the road so much this year, since the start of summer we have been on three tours. However, it isn’t always like that. When Jettee was first starting out we were playing shows wherever we could, mostly garages, backyards, and once a completely empty bar. I was at a studio one day, writing with some new friends when I met an artist named Jordy Searcy. We got to talking and decided we would have to write some music and surf sometime. A few weeks later I got an email from his booking agent. Jordy wanted to take me on tour with him! You have to remember that this was when I had only 3 songs out and no following. Jordy decided to take a chance on this 17 year old surfer who had a big passion for writing music. Now with several tours under our belt as a band, its fun to look back at those first few shows on the road and to see how far we have come, as well as to think of how grateful I am to Jordy Searcy for taking a chance on me. Read more>>

Meg Stafford

We had gone to family camp through the Appalachian Mountain Club for many years the same week each summer, so we saw many of the same people year after year. Meals are served family style at tables for 8 or 9. It was after lunch one day, and a few of us were catching up before the staff shooed us out to go swim, nap, or otherwise clear their dining room. We realized that in all those years, we had never asked each other how old we were. When it came to be my turn, I stated that I was fifty, and the person next to me gasped, look confused and exclaimed, “You don’t act like it!” I burst out laughing because I had not anticipated that kind of response. It was clearly very genuine, and he really had no idea how meaningful his comment was. I was just past the triathlon of treatment for breast cancer, and then had broken my hand falling off my bicycle, and it had been a difficult year in many ways, so I was not feeling my very best. Read more>>

Brandy Wilkins

I was a graduate student at The Ohio State University for my Master of Physical Therapy degree. One year into a two and a half year program, my sister was killed in a car accident. My family lived in North Carolina and I was in Ohio. My classmates chipped in to purchase my plane ticket home to grieve with my family. That was over a decade ago, yet it still makes my heart swell when I think about their kindness. These were broke college students who thought enough about me to help so significantly. I will never forget that. Read more>>