Unexpected Goodness
Just like sunlight and vitamins energize our bodies, goodness and kindness fuel our souls. Unfortunately, today’s media highlight dissension and negativity when the world we live in is already filled with more challenges than usual since the inception of the pandemic.
Goodness is happening all around us but seldom receives the public appreciation and enjoyment it deserves. Our blog is a way to bring everyday heroics to inspire, reenergize or just warm your heart. Here are our latest entries to feed your soul:
Cher Ami
UNEXPECTED GOODNESS
The most famous pigeon in history: Cher Ami
Cher Ami, French for “dear friend,” was a homing pigeon, one of 600 English-bred birds donated to the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France to help deliver important messages during World War 1. He is most famous for traveling over 40 km (25 miles) to deliver a message from an encircled battalion (“The Lost Battalion”) despite being shot through the breast, blind in one eye, and covered in blood with a severed leg hanging by one tendon. The message that dangled from his injured leg ultimately saved 194 lives. Today, the little hero of the 77th Infantry Division has been mounted by a taxidermist in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in its “Price of Freedom” exhibit.
~National Museum of American History
Standing Up for Good in Toxic Times
The Nobel Peace Prize put up for auction by the Russian journalist Dmitry A. Muratov to help Ukrainian refugees, sold Monday night for $103.5 million to an anonymous buyer, obliterating the record for a Nobel medal. The proceeds from the auction will go to UNICEF to...
Dress-up day and its not Haloween
One day, patients, physicians and staff at the Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis had their day brightened immeasurably by the sight of Spider-Man and Captain America crawling up and down their hospital windows outside! Window washers, Steve Oszaniec and his...
GRATEFUL PEOPLE FOSTER GRATEFUL PEOPLE
During a televised speech before an audience of 6,000, Zig Ziglar was asked what advice he had for encouraging a negative pessimistic son. You could’ve heard a pin drop. Ziglar left the stage and walked right up to the man. He dropped to one knee, speaking directly....
