A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
Ayda Zugay was fleeing the former Yugoslavia with her older sister when a stranger handed them an envelope after meeting them on a plane. They were shocked to find $100 inside. For years she’s been trying to find the mystery woman and thank her.
Be sure to check the update: they found her!
For the past three decades, the former journalist from Toronto has been volunteering his time to sing to patients and hospital staff in need of a pick-me-up. Last month, the Governor General awarded him the Sovereigns’ Medal for Volunteers to recognize his work.
Source: This 96-year-old has been singing to hospital patients for 30 years
How cool.
Walter Orthmann was just 15 when he began working as a shipping assistant at a textile company in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Love it!
Seventeen-year-old Benjamin Choi put his spare time during the pandemic to good use designing an accessible device that doesn’t require brain surgery
Source: This High Schooler Invented a Low-Cost, Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm
Well done!
MIT researchers created a portable desalination unit that can remove particles and salts simultaneously to generate drinking water. The user-friendly unit, which weighs less than 10 kilograms and does not require filters, can be powered by a small, portable solar panel.
Source: From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button
Very cool!
When a Massachusetts woman ordered a pizza on a routine Friday evening, she had no idea the quick thinking and kindness of her delivery driver would change her life that night.
Well done!
“It was obvious that it had to have something to do with race,” Tracey Meares said.
Source: Black woman named high school valedictorian 38 years after snub
Righting a wrong.
Meri Mion was 13 when US soldiers, fighting Germans nearby, snatched the cake from a windowsill in Italy.
Source: US Army replaces cake it stole from Italian girl in 1945
Nicely done.
These five cities around the world have gotten their citizens into “plogging,” the Swedish trend of picking up trash while jogging.
Source: 5 cities celebrating the earth by “plogging” | The Optimist Daily
Cool idea!
Digby, a ‘Defusing’ Dog, Saves the Life of a Lady: Dogs are amazing creatures that can do things that humans are incapable of. Digby saved the life of a woman..
Source: Digby, A ‘Defusing’ Dog, Saves The Life Of A Lady Who Was Attempting Suicide On A Bridge – KNOVHOV
Amazing.