Kindness Booths*

Imagine being alone and feeling isolated? Would a kind message make you feel better? It usually does and that is why Wildly Kind is beginning to place booths at festivals and fairs and other such gatherings. Anyone can go into the booth leave a kind message for someone who will need it.  Kayla Lamoureux the founder of Wildly Kind started it as a sort of free mental health resource. She began it in 2022 during the pandemic, and attracted a group of ambassadors who engage in doing kind things, for example give flowers to a stranger. The booths which first appeared in Portland where Lamoureux lives are an expansion of the organization’s work. With the first booths people could leave notes or even videos. They are now equipped with a land line where people can record a message to a stranger who may be struggling. They have appeared in several cities in other states and more are planned.

 I’d suggest you’d cheer the idea but I suspect that’s redundant, you already do. What I hope you will add to your cheering is how many people care about each other, strangers included, how many people want to help and how much good that represents.

*reposted from GGID page