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Kindness & Community

Apache chef Nephi Craig says cooking Native food saved his life

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Craig has cooked in a high-end restaurant - and for 7,800 prisoners in jail. He writes about cooking, his struggle with addition and his Native American heritage in the memoir Our Knives Will Save Us.(Image credit: Ari Carter Craig)

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The kindness section highlights people helping people: strangers stepping in during emergencies, communities rallying around neighbors, small acts that ripple outward. These are not performative charity stories; they are moments where someone chose to act when they did not have to.

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