There was the couple that picked up a woman's ball of knitting yarn when it rolled under the seats on an airplane. The heart-shaped Christmas tree ornament given to parents in honor of their stillborn son. That friend who shipped her pal corn tortillas while she was homesick and living abroad.
And for Rachel Hunt, there was her sister's 10-year-old child, who offered kindness when her brother died of a heroin overdose in 2018. A cup of tea with lemon and honey, leaves poured into the water, straight from the packet. On accident, but with purpose.
Out of Hunt's grief came Tiny Kindness, a social media project where users chronicle little moments led by big love. Not random or easily forgotten.
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"They're not like a fake version of, like, joy or a fake version of positivity, but it's acknowledging, like, 'Yeah, that hard thing was actually hard," Hunt said. "Like, that divorce was hard, that death was hard, losing my brother was hard."
