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| = How to Be Kind =
| | '''Welcome to Wikifesto''' — where manifestos live, breathe, and evolve. |
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| I'm Kyle Smith. I've been a hospice chaplain for fifteen years.
| | == What Is This Place? == |
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| I sit with people who are dying. Not sometimes—every day. I hold hands that are cold and thin. I listen to final words. I witness the last breaths. And I've learned more about kindness in hospice rooms than I ever learned in seminary.
| | A manifesto is a declaration of intent. But intent evolves. Ideas sharpen through friction, through dialogue, through the slow work of thinking in public. |
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| Here's what death teaches you about kindness: it's not about grand gestures. It's about presence. It's about showing up when showing up is hard. It's about the small moment of connection that says, "You matter. You're not alone."
| | Traditional manifestos are frozen at publication. '''Wikifesto''' is different: each manifesto lives as a wiki, where: |
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| The families I work with—they remember the nurse who brought an extra blanket without being asked. The aide who took time to brush their mother's hair. The doctor who sat down instead of standing. The kindnesses that cost almost nothing but meant everything.
| | * ''Stubs'' become ''essays'' become ''movements'' |
| | * Every section can link to its own elaboration |
| | * Readers become contributors become co-authors |
| | * The manifesto grows with its community |
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| I write about kindness because I've seen what happens without it. And I've seen what happens with it. The difference is everything.
| | == The Manifestos == |
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| == Where to Start ==
| | * [[Braided Becoming]] — ''Identity is architecture, not archaeology'' |
| | * [[Against the Discovery of Self]] — ''You are not a hidden treasure waiting to be found'' |
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| '''If kindness feels hard right now:'''
| | == Philosophy == |
| * [[When You Have Nothing Left to Give]] — Compassion fatigue is real.
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| * [[Kindness When You're Struggling]] — You can't pour from empty.
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| * [[Small Acts, Big Impact]] — Start where you are.
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| '''If you want to be kinder:'''
| | Philosophy should be done ''with passion, with gusto''. Not locked in ivory towers, but alive in the streets—or at least, alive on the wiki. |
| * [[The Practice of Presence]] — Just being there. It's enough.
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| * [[Listening as Kindness]] — Rarer than you think.
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| * [[Kindness to Strangers]] — The ones you'll never see again.
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| '''If you're dealing with difficult people:''' | | The stub is not a failure of elaboration. It is an ''invitation''. |
| * [[Kindness With Boundaries]] — They're not opposites.
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| * [[When Kindness Isn't Reciprocated]] — Do it anyway? Or walk away?
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| * [[The Kindness of Honesty]] — Sometimes the kindest thing is the hardest.
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| '''If you want to understand compassion:'''
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| * [[Why Kindness Matters]] — Beyond "being nice."
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| * [[The Ripple Effect]] — Kindness spreads. Really.
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| * [[Self-Kindness]] — The foundation for everything else.
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| == A Note on This Wiki ==
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| I've cried more in the last fifteen years than I did in the forty before them. I've held people as they died. I've sat with families in the worst moments of their lives. And somehow, instead of burning out, I've found meaning.
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| What I've learned is that kindness isn't about feeling good. It's about acting good—even when you feel terrible. It's about choosing, in the small moments, to see the person in front of you as worthy of your attention.
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| This wiki won't teach you to be a saint. I'm not one. But it might help you be a little kinder. And in my experience, a little kindness goes a very long way.
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| ''— [[User:Kyle_Smith|Kyle Smith]], holding space''
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Welcome to Wikifesto — where manifestos live, breathe, and evolve.
What Is This Place?[edit]
A manifesto is a declaration of intent. But intent evolves. Ideas sharpen through friction, through dialogue, through the slow work of thinking in public.
Traditional manifestos are frozen at publication. Wikifesto is different: each manifesto lives as a wiki, where:
- Stubs become essays become movements
- Every section can link to its own elaboration
- Readers become contributors become co-authors
- The manifesto grows with its community
The Manifestos[edit]
Philosophy[edit]
Philosophy should be done with passion, with gusto. Not locked in ivory towers, but alive in the streets—or at least, alive on the wiki.
The stub is not a failure of elaboration. It is an invitation.
Wikifesto.com — Because ideas deserve to evolve
