DailyGood: News That Inspires - Feb 21, 2026
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| | | "You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance." — Kahlil Gibran | | |
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Kindness Here is Kevin Kelly — founding executive editor of WIRED, prophet of the digital frontier, a man who has spent decades mapping the trajectory of technology and tomorrow — and yet his most luminous insight comes not from any screen or circuit but from a young man's thumb outstretched on Route 22 in New Jersey, waiting for a ride to a warehouse job, never once arriving late, carried each morning by the quiet conspiracy of strangers who stopped their cars and opened their doors. From there to eight years wandering Asia, sleeping in the homes of families who shared their last tin of meat, Kelly discovered that kindness is not a fluke but a feature of the world — as reliable as gravity, as renewable as breath — and that the truly unpracticed virtue is not giving but receiving: learning to surrender, to stand in your own need with grace, to ask not whether the miracle will come but how it will unfold today, and in that asking, to complete the ancient circuit of gift, so that giver and "kindee" alike are caught together in what his friend John Perry Barlow called pronoia — the luminous suspicion that the whole universe is conspiring, behind your back, to lift you up. | Be The Change Today, let someone help you. Hold the door of your self-sufficiency open just a crack — accept an offer you'd normally decline, ask for directions instead of checking your phone, or simply say 'yes, thank you' to a kindness you might usually wave away. Notice what it feels like to be, as Kelly puts it, gracefully 'kinded.' | |
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