What Counts As Kindness?

This episode explores what truly counts as kindness by profiling three people who kept showing up: Kimberly, a park volunteer who translated a scavenger hunt into Spanish and logged nearly a thousand hours; Larry, who spent 24 years preserving historic cannons and protecting visitors at national parks; and Alice, a nurse who worked for 72 years and retired beloved by her small town. Host Matthew McInnis argues that kindness is less a single intention than a daily practice — a candle relit over and over — and that paid work can be just as kind as volunteerism.