Why Leaders Need to Show Kindness
The absence of kindness is noticeable
The absence of kindness is noticeable
This essay reflects on a year that unsettled my understanding of Australia.
After the lockdowns, the world didn’t get kinder. And that surprised me.
I call her Flo. Not out of familiarity or irreverence, but because over time she stopped feeling like an author I read and began to feel like someone I returned to. A steady voice on the shelf. A companionable presence rather than a doctrine.
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.