Monthly Archives: August 2011

The basic idea behind random act of kindness (RAK) is to serve as a counterforce to this age of pessimism. In an uncertain time of conflict and economic instability, there’s more than enough pessimism to go around. RAK is designed … Continue reading →

The Daily Post is an experiment in blogging from the WordPress people. Back in February, Scott Brekun asked “when was your last random act of kindness?” There were 61 comments left as a result. If you’re stuck about what to … Continue reading →

I was googling around for some inspiration around random acts of kindness and I came across a blog called ZenHabits written by Leo Babauta (Follow the links. This guy takes minimalistic writing to new levels of brevity.) The post today on … Continue reading →

Of course the philosophic response is “why not?” but it does deeper than that. Notice the outpouring of emotion surrounding the death of Jack Layton here in Canada. I’m guessing most of the people who are leaving messages written in … Continue reading →

Jack Layton, leader of the NDP, long-time Toronto politician and overall decent good guy died today from a second bout with cancer. But Jack was nothing if not a man who thought about others. As a last not-so random act … Continue reading →

It’s not yet 8 am and I’ve already completed my random act of kindness for today. While going through my email and firing up my Tweetdeck I notice one of my friends had posted a happy birthday greeting to another … Continue reading →

You don’t have to wait until November 4th to do a random act of kindness. Why not do something today? Consider it a warmup for the big day in November. Pick up a piece of litter. Mow the lawn. It … Continue reading →

Here’s a really good example from a recent article in the Toronto Sun. A guy named Jonathan Stark  bought a Starbuck’s coffee card. He pre-loaded it with enough money for a coffee and then uploaded an image of the card to … Continue reading →

What does pay it forward mean? Wikipedia, the fount of all knowledge on the web, says the expression describes the concept of asking that a good turn be repaid by having it done to others instead. In other words, you … Continue reading →

On Friday, November 4, 2011 everyone in Oakville will be invited to participate in Random Act of Kindness Day in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. On this Friday we are collectively going to help make Oakville a better, kinder community by our … Continue reading →