The Quiet Power of Showing Up
There’s a kind of leadership that doesn’t make the front page very often. It doesn’t arrive with grand declarations or theatrical press conferences.
There’s a kind of leadership that doesn’t make the front page very often. It doesn’t arrive with grand declarations or theatrical press conferences.
Why can’t every decision be made through humanity and kindness. It sounds simple, yes? Perhaps too simple.
Kindness—or more often, the absence of it—shows up everywhere. In families. In workplaces. In public life.
After the lockdowns, the world didn’t get kinder. That surprised me. I had imagined people returning to public spaces with newfound grace— soft eyes behind lifted masks, hands reaching for one another with the quiet understanding that we’d made it.
This is the first story in The Little Book of Kindness — a series of small reflections on everyday acts that quietly change us. I was fifteen, in Narrogin and my Gran had died… this was her funeral, my first experience at losing a loved one.