Being chill and being compassionate is what Be Kind and Unwind is all about. The club meets every Friday during Liberty Hour in room 901 and every other week they focus on doing kind things for the students and faculty, like helping custodians stack chairs, buying vending machine snacks for random students or passing out treats to random classes.

“We do our best to help everyone out in the school like the custodians and the teachers,” sophomore Emily Paeth said. “We also drink tea and burn incense, along with passing out food to people around the school. We hand out little snacks and tape money to the vending machines for people to buy themselves a snack.”

Club sponsor Jeffry Wilkins always keeps a good balance between work and relaxation.

“We hang out, unwind, we relax, we drink tea and burn incense,” Wilkins said. “We do that one Friday, then the following Friday we actually circle up and meet and talk about things we can do for others. [For the] past two weeks, what we’ve done is tape little cards to a little bag of chips, granola bar or a sandwich from Chick-fil-A and just hand it out to someone they don’t know. Sometimes they do this with whole classrooms and just leave them out on the desks.”

Wilkins started the club last year and he still loves it.

“Last year was the first year,” he said. “Very little has changed except that we are a tad more organized with one year of experience. It was my wife’s idea to start the club over at the old junior high and I wanted to start it here. I got her permission and started it here.”

The club truly amplifies that it’s the little things in life that make people happy.

“I like that it’s a chill place and that sometimes we can go out and do really nice things for people,” junior Emily Backhaus said. “Whether or not we accept that it makes people’s day, little things always help. It’s always a good place to be.”

Members have become more organized after their second year as a club and a lot of people have taken notice.

“We’re definitely doing more this year, like putting sticky notes on the bathroom mirrors or handing them out to people and helping them have a happier day,” senior Faith Ordonio said.

Though sometimes the club meetings consist of just eating lunch, relaxing or being good to others, they also talk about things that have a deeper meaning.

“In Wilkins’ room we hang out and talk about what we can do to relax. Last week we talked about what it’s like just to meditate in the morning,” Ordonio said. “We also talk about what it means to be truly happy and the meanings of life.”

The club is also planning acts of kindness they can do next year, including possibly adopting a highway to represent LHS.

“We would like to get a little bit more involved with the community next year and do more random acts of kindness,” Wilkins said.

However Faith Ordonio wants to make sure the underclassmen keep the club going with more attendance.

“I hope they continue to come to the meetings,” she said. “It’s really just about relaxing; it’s nice that it’s on Fridays because it’s nice to relax at the end of the week.”

And if the club continues like Paeth describes, then it shouldn’t be a problem.

“I just really like how relaxed it is and we all can just talk. It’s always really quiet and peaceful,” she said.