Kindness

Kindness. We don't have enough of that these days. Downtowners have heart, though, and I want to show everyone the little miracles I see on the regs, the stories you don't always see in the news. When you live downtown, you've got to be ready to see some things that'll hurt your heart a little. There's an unhoused population that's vastly misunderstood. There's a singleness in the day-to-day air. You can find yourself feeling pretty alone sometimes, even though you're surrounded with people. There's a life that's happening underneath your window that both includes you and excludes you. But when you're on the street, you realize that we're not singletons. We're family. That you've got your problems and so does the girl next to you at the bar. When you're on the ground and out in the world, you realize that we're all more connected than we might realize, and it really pays to show a little more kindness to one another. And this is about learning to be kind to ourselves, too.