What Is Kindness?
"After I cleaned up from all the booze and drugs, I discovered that–shocker–I was still a real asshole: Unreliable. Untruthful. And reflexively unkind."
To populate our new Substack page, we’re re-running some old essays on Fridays. This one ran in 2022 with the headline “Warmest Thoughts from the Household.” It’s obliquely about George Saunders’ wonderful essay “Congratulations, By the Way,” but it veers inward, discussing my struggles with being genuinely and unselfishly kind and also accepting kindne…
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