BeingKind

Small kind things, and where they travel.

Not grand gestures. Specific, doable things — with the reason each one actually lands, which is usually the part nobody explains.

One thing, today

Write an actual letter

A letter can be reread, shown to visitors and kept on the mantelpiece. A text cannot do any of those things.

  • Half an hour
  • Under $10
  • A neighbor
How to do it →

Not this one? Three questions and we will pick, or browse the whole library.

Every dot is a kind thing somebody actually did and recorded — 99 acts across 5 countries. Where they have reached

“It was good to see the positive reaction from the kid that I was willing to stop and let him finish the sentence and hear him out.”
Someone in Seattle did Let a child finish the sentence

Do one thing, then hand it on

A chain is a single act passed from person to person. It is the only thing here that grows without anybody organizing it.

  1. Do something for somebody

    Anything at all. Record it when it is done — one tap, no account.

  2. Give them the code

    A link, or a card. Theirs to use or ignore, and nothing chases them.

  3. Watch where it goes

    Everyone who does the same thing and adds themselves is another stop.

Chains you have started →How they work

3 chains are being passed from person to person right now, and the longest has reached 3 people.

Happening now

Everything that has happened →

There is a great deal more

Or by what today allows

What people are doing this week

Start with one of these

There is one email a month — a themed month, a few things for the situations you care about, and one sentence somebody wrote. No images, no tracking, and a link in every edition that erases your address completely.