Kindness I received from a (normally) mean cat

2,718 views | Posted by A friend on September 11, 2026

This is a story from a couple decades ago. I was 16, hopeless, and living in an abusive home. One day I was home alone after school, with the only other creature in the house being Pebbles, my family's jerk of a cat. She was nasty, liked hiding under things and leaping out to claw and bite passing ankles. She hissed, she attacked if you...

Kind man with a cane

2,596 views | Posted by Leann on September 16, 2026

Years ago I was homeless on the streets in the Pacific Northwest. I was married at the time, young and in love. Daily life was a struggle and we were both artist longing to do more art in life. Living with the day to day struggle homelessness brings we did not have the supplies we needed to create the art we loved. We...

My teacher made me cry out of joy

2,580 views | Posted by A friend on September 17, 2026

I'm crying in the school restroom as I'm typing this. My mom got me my favorite rice with tofu for lunch, and I was getting pretty hungry and excited to eat it after fifth period. I grabbed my lunch, put it in the microwave, and as I was taking it out, I accidentally dropped my lunchbox onto one of the...

16 years ago, I took a terrifying 1% chance. To my 18-year-old self: thank you

2,401 views | Posted by A friend on September 14, 2026

I was 18, a total computer nerd, and had literally never asked a girl out in my life. I was thrift shopping with my mom when I saw the cashier, and she was hands down the most beautiful person I’d ever seen. My biggest fear was rejection. I knew I had a 99% chance of getting crushed right in front of my own mom, but a...

Saved a bird, cried

2,365 views | Posted by A friend on September 19, 2026

My hubs called me out to the pool where a tiny bird was barely treading water. I got him out and kept him upright and warm in my hands for probably 30 while he calmed and dried out, eyes still closed. He finally fluffed out his wings and opened his eyes so I took him over to a bush and set him under it. He seemed to settle in so I...

A Customer Made My Day

2,363 views | Posted by A friend on September 16, 2026

I work at a regional sub chain as a shift lead and just try to do my best, my goal in life is to make people smile and help where I can. It's why I work in customer service, specifically with food. If there is one thing all people love, it is food. So of course we get many people who order catering, which when they...

A stranger offers a ride to a stressed Grandma

2,261 views | Posted by Vonnie on September 21, 2026

Leaving a big swimming carnival at Sydney Olympic Park today, I was stressed about getting my two grandsons and all our backpacks, to the bus in time, to catch a train at Strathfield. I spotted a "taxi" (a bit like when cartoon characters see a live chicken imagining it to be a roast chicken). I was stressed and saw this...

The End of Summer

2,164 views | Posted by Joseph J. Mazzella on September 15, 2026

I saw my first sign of the end of summer here today. As I walked underneath my Maple tree I saw the first few leaves had already changed from green to red and fallen to the ground. It reminded me of how fast this summer has flown by and how beautiful it has been. When I was a boy I hated this time of the year. It meant soon I...

Father-Daughter Dance

2,151 views | Posted by Jesska on September 22, 2026

At my high school graduation dinner. They called all the girls up for a father-daughter dance. I didn't have one so I sat at the table expecting to sit this one out. I got a tap on my shoulder and turned around to see my best friend's dad. He said he had room for two. He took us both up to...

I started painting at 40. One year in, I think I finally found my thing

2,061 views | Posted by Threshold_Guardian2 on September 24, 2026

I started drawing last year at 39 and found my way to oil painting around the time I turned 40. I had no idea it would become such an important part of my life. These are a couple of the paintings I’ve made along the way, and the little room where most of it happens. I spent a long time thinking you...

See You Through It

1,983 views | Posted by Joseph J. Mazzella on September 23, 2026

Several weeks ago I contracted Lyme Disease. This is the disease you get from a tick bite that floods your body with a bacteria. Now I didn’t see or feel it when the tick bit me. The bull’s-eye rash that was supposed to appear didn’t. All I knew was I was feeling bad. I had chills, shakes, and bouts of sweats. I felt...

My friends won’t stop gifting me banana themed tools

1,954 views | Posted by ChiaEFX on September 23, 2026

A few years ago, my friend 3D printed a banana for scale (left) for me and it quickly became a staple on my social media. In the years since, my assistant gave me a banana wrench as a joke for my birthday. A friend gave me the most excellent retractable switch-banana. My married friends found the banana hat...

Thank you to the stranger who gave me a hug on the Victoria line today

1,822 views | Posted by A friend on September 26, 2026

I've been job hunting for months now. Today I found out that a job I thought I'd get fell through. On top of that, I did a trial shift for a few hours at a café last week, but they turned me down and refused to pay for the trial afterwards. All that pressure just built up, and on the train it hit me all at once. I...

There's a 2-year-old kid at my warehouse who runs out to hug me every day

1,765 views | Posted by A friend on September 28, 2026

I'm a business owner, and there's a 2-year-old kid at my warehouse who runs out to hug me every day. I think he's one of my favorite people in the world. One of my female employees has a 2-year-old son, and we all play with him a lot at the warehouse. I usually arrive later than everyone else, and somehow,...

I gave my extra food to a homeless man this morning, then a stranger on my flight unexpectedly gave me $60

1,612 views | Posted by A friend on September 29, 2026

Today has been such a weirdly wholesome day. I was at the courthouse this morning to be a witness for my sister’s marriage. I had a cooler/bag with extra food that I wasn’t going to be able to take with me, and there was a homeless man sleeping outside the courthouse. Rather than throw the food away, I went over and...

What Working at a Food Bank Taught Me

1,570 views | Posted by Michael on September 30, 2026

When I started working at the food bank here in Port Townsend, Washington, last April, one of the things I worried about was how to say "no" to people who would ask for more food than we could give them. It's not that I assumed people would be greedy. I just figured that people coming to a food bank were...

Thank you to the Good Samaritan at the San Diego airport

1,288 views | Posted by A friend on October 1, 2026

My brother-in-law and his young sons were running seriously late this morning after a wrong turn ✈️ and they ended up on foot along the road trying to make up time. A good Samaritan pulled over after seeing them run with bags in hand and offered them a ride at 5 a.m. this morning to get to the correct terminal and because of...

A Loving “Coincidence”

1,279 views | Posted by Joseph J. Mazzella on September 10, 2026

A recent storm had caused a tree to fall knocking down power lines across a road here. The guy holding the stop sign said it would be four hours before it was cleared. That meant all traffic had to be rerouted down a narrow, back country road that would take me 15 miles out of my way. Still, I decided to try it. As I started down it I was...

Truck accident aftermath help - sweetest return too

1,208 views | Posted by A friend on October 2, 2026

I live on a busy road. Sunday during the Bills football game, a truck ended up on its side against our front tree, about 15 feet from our house. My husband heard and almost saw the whole thing. We rushed into action, helped the 2 teenagers with sitting them down, water bottles, paper towels, and phones to...

The neighborhood cat came to visit me the day after my cat passed away

1,161 views | Posted by kinzygrace on October 3, 2026

The neighborhood cat came to visit me the day after my cat passed away- I like to think it was a sign from my cat saying that she’s okay. So yesterday morning after I finished feeding the cats, I looked up after putting the dishes in the sink and saw this cat standing outside just sitting there and staring at the...