Regiving: The Gifts of Kindness & Laughter

A few months ago my friend Amanda asked me to take part in her blog series, Seven Souls One Mus­ing on Kind Over Mat­ter, by answer­ing the ques­tion: “What was one of the fun­ni­est expe­ri­ences of your life, one where you laughed from your core?”

The blog series inspired her to com­pile an eBook, regiv­ing the gifts of laugh­ter and kind­ness from 30 dif­fer­ent vision­ary con­trib­u­tors to YOU. The result is a book brim­ming with com­pas­sion and hilar­ity. These are the kinds of sto­ries you want to read with your morn­ing coffee.

(some of) My favorite lines from the sto­ries shared:

“I’ll always remem­ber what it felt like to be so invin­ci­ble: to have some­one believe in me with their whole, fum­bling, translu­cently lovely heart.” — God­dess Leonie

“Which is dumb. Because it was tea. Except it wasn’t.
It was an act of love. Recog­ni­tion. A moment of being-seen-ness.” — Fabeku Fatun­mise

“So Brian sug­gested I take off the tights. But (I can’t believe I’m telling you this) — they were the kind with the panties already built in. Catch my drift?” — Con­nie Hozvioka

“Instead, the con­gre­ga­tion started to laugh. And laugh. And laugh. Though the laugh­ter wasn’t cruel, I didn’t know what to do with it, so I did what came nat­u­rally. I peed my pants.” — Tanya Geisler

And that’s just a taste of the 60 sto­ries com­piled in the book. Amanda also had the good sense to ask five dif­fer­ent artists to each con­tribute a inspir­ing art print for you to down­load and hang.

It’s a pretty sweet lit­tle book, that’s all I’m sayin’! (and not just because I’m in it!)

Buy the book here and make sure to visit and sub­scribe to & fol­low Amanda’s blog, Kind Over Mat­ter here.