@dwellsjournal.bsky.social
After a long and rewarding IT career, I'm devoting my time to helping make the world a kinder place. I also try to encourage critical thinking and listening.
Kindness takes the form of community: cultivating skills and habits that allow people to contribute steadily.
February 8, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Kindness takes the form of community: cultivating skills and habits that allow people to contribute steadily.
Kindness takes the form of attention here: care expressed not by speed or volume, but by taking the time to make contact personal and enduring.
February 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Kindness takes the form of attention here: care expressed not by speed or volume, but by taking the time to make contact personal and enduring.
Kindness takes the form of competence here: care delivered quietly, repeatedly, and close to home, without expectation of notice or praise.
February 6, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Kindness takes the form of competence here: care delivered quietly, repeatedly, and close to home, without expectation of notice or praise.
The idea was often reinforced in midwinter, when energy was low and needs were persistent, precisely when an act of kindness was needed.
Kindness takes the form of reliability here: help offered freely, repeated often enough to become routine.
Kindness takes the form of reliability here: help offered freely, repeated often enough to become routine.
February 5, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The idea was often reinforced in midwinter, when energy was low and needs were persistent, precisely when an act of kindness was needed.
Kindness takes the form of reliability here: help offered freely, repeated often enough to become routine.
Kindness takes the form of reliability here: help offered freely, repeated often enough to become routine.
By holding her ground without theatrics, she narrowed the space for cruelty to justify itself and made ordinary decency harder to dismiss.
You never know what baby being born will advance our collective humanity.
You never know what baby being born will advance our collective humanity.
February 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
By holding her ground without theatrics, she narrowed the space for cruelty to justify itself and made ordinary decency harder to dismiss.
You never know what baby being born will advance our collective humanity.
You never know what baby being born will advance our collective humanity.
Kindness takes the form of care made possible by access: removing barriers so skill, judgment, and compassion can be applied wherever they are needed.
February 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Kindness takes the form of care made possible by access: removing barriers so skill, judgment, and compassion can be applied wherever they are needed.
Kindness takes the form of steadiness here: presence that does not hurry, and reassurance that staying with difficulty is sometimes the most generous act available.
February 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Kindness takes the form of steadiness here: presence that does not hurry, and reassurance that staying with difficulty is sometimes the most generous act available.
Kindness takes the form of choosing to eliminate sanctioned harm, even when doing so is incomplete, contested, and long overdue.
February 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Kindness takes the form of choosing to eliminate sanctioned harm, even when doing so is incomplete, contested, and long overdue.
Kindness took the form of nourishment: practical, routine, and unremarkable in the best sense, meeting a basic human need so that other possibilities could take root.
January 31, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Kindness took the form of nourishment: practical, routine, and unremarkable in the best sense, meeting a basic human need so that other possibilities could take root.
Over time, the symbol traveled far beyond its original context. It appeared in classrooms, on signs, in notebooks, and in public spaces, often used less as a political statement than as shorthand expressing a desire for peace.
January 30, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Over time, the symbol traveled far beyond its original context. It appeared in classrooms, on signs, in notebooks, and in public spaces, often used less as a political statement than as shorthand expressing a desire for peace.
The work behind those partnerships is steady and largely unseen. It involves patience, repetition, and trust built over time, until cooperation becomes second nature.
Kindness takes the form of enabling independence, offering help that expands freedom.
Kindness takes the form of enabling independence, offering help that expands freedom.
January 29, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The work behind those partnerships is steady and largely unseen. It involves patience, repetition, and trust built over time, until cooperation becomes second nature.
Kindness takes the form of enabling independence, offering help that expands freedom.
Kindness takes the form of enabling independence, offering help that expands freedom.
Kindness takes the form of readiness and resourcefulness so that others can move through the world with a little more safety and confidence.
January 28, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Kindness takes the form of readiness and resourcefulness so that others can move through the world with a little more safety and confidence.
In setting aside time to remember, societies acknowledge a responsibility to the vulnerable: past, present, and future. It is an insistence that cruelty thrives most easily where indifference takes root.
Today, people are choosing to bear witness, to remember those who were lost.
Today, people are choosing to bear witness, to remember those who were lost.
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
In setting aside time to remember, societies acknowledge a responsibility to the vulnerable: past, present, and future. It is an insistence that cruelty thrives most easily where indifference takes root.
Today, people are choosing to bear witness, to remember those who were lost.
Today, people are choosing to bear witness, to remember those who were lost.
Kindness takes the form of stewardship: passing on knowledge with the understanding that caring for shared resources is one of the ways people look after one another across generations.
January 26, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Kindness takes the form of stewardship: passing on knowledge with the understanding that caring for shared resources is one of the ways people look after one another across generations.
Kindness takes the form of fellowship: opening doors, sharing a table, and using stories to remind people that warmth and welcome are among the oldest social bonds we have.
January 25, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Kindness takes the form of fellowship: opening doors, sharing a table, and using stories to remind people that warmth and welcome are among the oldest social bonds we have.
Today, kindness can take the form of a little recognition, offered freely and received in ways that often will last longer than the moment itself.
January 24, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Today, kindness can take the form of a little recognition, offered freely and received in ways that often will last longer than the moment itself.
Kindness took the form of consistency: a long-running commitment to show up for children, one book at a time, trusting that small, repeated acts can shape futures.
January 23, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Kindness took the form of consistency: a long-running commitment to show up for children, one book at a time, trusting that small, repeated acts can shape futures.
Kindness took the form of collective action at scale: many small donations, coordinated quickly, became real food, medical care, shelter, and support when it was needed most.
January 22, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Kindness took the form of collective action at scale: many small donations, coordinated quickly, became real food, medical care, shelter, and support when it was needed most.
Kindness took the form of normalizing warmth, making care visible, and allowing small gestures to count.
Celebrate National Hugging Day today!
Celebrate National Hugging Day today!
January 21, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Kindness took the form of normalizing warmth, making care visible, and allowing small gestures to count.
Celebrate National Hugging Day today!
Celebrate National Hugging Day today!
Kindness took the form of choosing to show up, to listen before acting, and to believe that understanding grows not from force, but from lived connection.
January 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Kindness took the form of choosing to show up, to listen before acting, and to believe that understanding grows not from force, but from lived connection.
Kindness took the form of building an alternative when existing systems failed, and of treating protection as a necessity.
January 19, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Kindness took the form of building an alternative when existing systems failed, and of treating protection as a necessity.
Kindness appeared as restraint after injustice. It took the form of recognizing that peace sometimes depends on refusing the satisfactions of retribution.
January 18, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Kindness appeared as restraint after injustice. It took the form of recognizing that peace sometimes depends on refusing the satisfactions of retribution.
Kindness took the form of choosing risk for oneself to reduce it for others, and of acting decisively when hesitation would have cost lives.
January 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Kindness took the form of choosing risk for oneself to reduce it for others, and of acting decisively when hesitation would have cost lives.
Did you know that we had no President or Constitution for the first eight years of America?
I write about that today here: open.substack.com/pub/dwellsjo...
I write about that today here: open.substack.com/pub/dwellsjo...
January 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Did you know that we had no President or Constitution for the first eight years of America?
I write about that today here: open.substack.com/pub/dwellsjo...
I write about that today here: open.substack.com/pub/dwellsjo...
Kindness took the form of acting early, investing broadly, and doing unremarkable things reliably and at scale.
January 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Kindness took the form of acting early, investing broadly, and doing unremarkable things reliably and at scale.