A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
Walt Hollier said: “I could have not asked for a better conclusion. It’s a win for Diego, a win for me, and a win for men who need a buddy right now.”
Source: Dying Man Pleads With Facebook to Find Home For His Dog and the Response is Overwhelming
Given the circles I run in, I hear stories like this from time to time. The response is always heartwarming.
A 15-year-old survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., used his body as a human shield to protect classmates.
Source: Survivor of Florida school shooting used his body as human shield to protect classmates – ABC News
The worst once again brings out the best.
“I wasn’t trying to make a campaign, this was literally me trying to help out my neighbors. We had to organize on the spot.”
Ask for 10, get over 10 times 10. Well done, Chicago. I’m also struck by how often I run into these “ask for X, get way-more-than-X” news items.
Today’s bit of good news? It’s the one-year anniversary of Not All News Is Bad!
One year ago today I started the public version of this little project, and since then have posted 359 (three hundred and fifty nine!) stories highlighting just a small fraction of the good things are are going on all around us. And don’t you for a second doubt that they’re out there. Often the hardest part of this job is to select which of several candidates to choose.
Oh, and there are 1,292 of you currently subscribed to Not All News Is Bad, plus uncountable others watching on Facebook (there are 112 followers, but since there’s no way to know how many people Facebook reliably shows it to, it’s quite literally uncountable).
Anyway, just wanted to take a one-day break from Not All News Is Bad to celebrate with a little good news of my own. Back to our regularly scheduled goodness tomorrow.
Thank you, as always, for hanging around and watching my little project.
Leo
PS: As I stated in the New Year’s post, this is a personal project of my own, with minimal costs since it leverages everything I already have in place to run Ask Leo! and other things. That being said, people still occasionally ask how they can help.
The best way is by sharing Not All News Is Bad with others. In these troubled times there’s no doubt that people need it.
If you feel you want to throw money at me, I won’t stop you. I’ve set up a patronage-like product in The Ask Leo! Store specifically for Not All News Is Bad support. Thanks for even considering it, but do share Not All News Is Bad with others, too, OK?
… if anything, the research simply gives him hope that we are on the right path to finding a viable treatment. “I don’t think there has ever been a better time to think that we will have interventions for Alzheimer’s.”
Source: Alzheimer’s Disease Is Completely Reversed by Removing Just One Enzyme in New Study
Fascinating, encouraging, and even a little bit exciting.
…the women in the terminal, there must have been six or seven of us, not women who knew each other, approached and surrounded her and the little boy and we knelt down and formed a circle around them.
Source: Something extraordinary at LAX today… (writing… – Beth Bornstein Dunnington (Facebook, no account required)
It’s a moving, and thoughtful story.
(A note about Facebook: I link to the original post, which is public. You do not need a Facebook account, but may get a pop-up to create one. Just click “Not Now” to dismiss the pop-up.)
Sting the dog was all alone at the library with no one there to read to him. That’s all changed now!
Source: ‘Sad’ dog looking for kids to read to him is now all booked up
Made me smile. 🙂 (It’s a cool program in general.)
Owner Anton Kotar says it’s not done as charity.
Source: Top-rated KC restaurant offering former inmates a job, and so much more
“Kotar has hired around 25 former inmates since the restaurant opened five years ago.” Awesome.
After hearing Washington state medical debt stories for an investigative report, we decided to do something about it. Our goal: buy as much medical debt as we could.
Source: $1 million in medical debt forgiven in Washington by KIRO 7, Jesse Jones | KIRO-TV
It’s sad that this is the state of medicine here, but it’s absolutely awesome to see people coming together like this.
Coffee beans contain phytochemicals that have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. … Caffeine and other phytochemicals have specific effects on enzymes that regulate liver function, insulin and glucose metabolism, and DNA repair.
Source: Coffee declared healthy (for most) — yay!
Definitely good news for a Starbucks diehard such as myself. 🙂 Yay!