“12” Uplifting Stories from 2021

Piper Hendricks
7 min readDec 24, 2021

We just had another doozy of a year. After the past 12 months (or even just 12 days), you might feel that 2021 was another dumpster fire we should extinguish in our memories as promptly as possible.

Not so fast, friend.

A candle sparkles against a dark background.
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I set out to find just 12 examples of good things that happened, but my list quickly grew to 20 before I simply stopped looking so I could post this before the year…

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Piper Hendricks

Stubborn Optimist. Pondering Nomad. Not-yet-recovered Workaholic, but working hard on that. I write about advocacy, balance, words, being real, and being human.