The warm and graceful Bettyville by George Hodgman offers another kind of proof--not just of why kindness matters inside memoirs, but of the inherent promise of considered structure.
What I find myself wondering, though, is why kindness can be so hard to manifest.
The two instructors joined HuffPost Live host Caroline Modarressy-tohrani to discuss why kindness lesson plans work and how they're creating such a widespread impact.
Here was one of a host of kindnesses which explain why Brian was so much appreciated by many of those who lived and worked with him, as he was also by millions of readers, who saw in his view of art a vigorous, sometimes ferocious, common sense, alongside a wondrous eye for beauty, which made him the most famous as well as the most controversial art critic of his time.
That's why the Kindness album is potentially even more radical, even though it's more pop-friendly.
Their stories, both the ones of anguish and the ones of kindness and optimism, illustrated why we started the campaign.
When her mother was out shopping, Eva, now 14, encouraged Edith to talk about how she survived in Berlin (mostly through the kindness of Germans) and why she left Palestine - largely because of hostility from sabras, Palestinian-born Jews who branded her a yekke, a pejorative term for German Jews that demonstrated a contempt for, and fear of, European survivors of the Nazis.
Why is kindness so difficult for us?
There is also good scientific evidence for why loving kindness works.
This generosity, along with the Haitian sense of kindness and community, is perhaps why, immediately after four stories collapsed on Maxo on January 12th, family, friends, and even strangers began to dig for him and his wife and their children.
