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Kevin Bacon’s Six Degrees of Caring
There are, as the parlor game goes, only six degrees of separation between actor Kevin Bacon and everyone on earth. Which makes him a sort of expert to heed — or at least a welcome voice to hear — in these days of forced separation.
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Kids living with the new normal
In these uncertain times, kids everywhere crave comfort, safety and some semblance of normalcy. It was this idea of normalcy behind the Facebook post of a mother who wanted to show her kids their birthdays were special despite having to cancel celebrations due to quarantine.
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“Bear Hunt” connects communities
The 1989 children’s book “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” is coming to life in communities across the globe. To help children pass the time as school and activities are cancelled, people are displaying stuffed animals for kids to spot when they go on walks with their parents.
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Jake Owen's gift of song
Country music star Jake Owen plays for fans via social media, keeping the human connection in these days of social distancing.
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Teachers reach out to students with parades of love
With schools closed across the country because of the coronavirus, teachers and staff at elementary schools in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Tennessee took to their cars and created parades through the neighborhoods of their students.
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Feeding kids, nourishing the soul
Debbie and Ed Witschen, inspired by their late son Dylan, a St. Jude patient, are teaming with other local businesses to provide free lunches for children who otherwise might go hungry because of school closings.
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Let me tell you a story
Josh Gad, voice of Olaf in Disney’s “Frozen” movies, is streaming nightly storytime sessions via Twitter, reading children’s books, complete with voices for each character.
About this blog
We went looking for acts of kindness in the time of the coronavirus — and found them everywhere. People looking out for a neighbor or stranger. People putting the most vulnerable among us first. People making human connections, even in this time of social distancing. As St. Jude founder Danny Thomas said: “Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.”
