Stories! with a theme of kindness

Watershed by Allison Jamieson-Lucy. I love the natural world details in this story, and the way strangeness sneaks in a little at a time. Most of all I love how it centers on kindness of one person for another.

via rushthatspeaks. The rest of the stories in their list were all too violent for my tastes.

A cluster of kind stories, list by Rose Lemberg.

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Word of the Year: Solace

This year's word of the year has been solace. I knew when I chose it that there was a lot underneath that I didn't have words for yet.

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The word I'm choosing for 2018 is "care." I want to be cared about and cared for, and I also want to act with care, both caring and careful. I almost changed it to kindness, and that's in there too, but care is more active. As I said to my ex in our last conversation, you can have all the warm fuzzy feelings you want for your houseplants, but if you don't water them, they're not going to do well. Active care, tangible practical care.