“Left a bottle of water in the mailbox”
"On a really hot day, left a bottle of water in the mailbox for the mail carrier." That was the message left by a woman on the ServiceSpace website in the section called "Stories of Kindness from [...]
From the Lake District to Dorset
As we set off for our vacation in West Dorset, we expected to find many sadly neglected areas along the roadside and around service stations as we journeyed and had planned to do ‘guerrilla sowing [...]
This Is Not Myself
The first time I made beauty for a hurt place was in the Utah Canyonlands. I was hiking along a narrow canyon, following the wash that had cut through the fox-red rock, when I came upon [...]
Warrior Woman for the Missing
This week's story comes from a woman called Thyme Eternity, who lives in British Columbia. Her heartbreak over the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls took a newly personal turn two [...]
The Moment the South Breeze Blew
It was a sweltering summer afternoon. My husband had had a recent accident and was in a lot of pain, and I was worried about him. To make matters worse, I was scheduled to leave [...]
Kilvey Earth Exchange
My mother had an operation the day before the Global Earth Exchange, so due to the uncertainty as to how that would unfold, we didn't make it official, as didn't want to let people down. [...]