Photographer: James Baes

Acts of kindness seem to be in short supply these days. Turn on the news, and you’re barraged with reports of cruelty, selfishness and inhumanity. Oh, and an ongoing health pandemic with a death toll that’s still mounting.  In these relentlessly bleak times, perhaps it will help to look back at a particularly life-affirming pictorial...

This year, spring arrived just in time for many of us to be ordered indoors in an effort to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. With summer fast approaching, a good number of us are still under lockdown orders and, for the most part, the sun is just a bright ball in the sky...