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:
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 aid Ukrainian children and their families who have been displaced by Russia’s invasion of their country. Muratov said the award was the achievement of the whole Novaya Gazeta team, including the six journalists who have been killed since the paper launched in 1993.
In contemporary Russia, human rights, openness, and freedom of expression have been deteriorating for years, according to activists and opposition figures. A more intensive crackdown began in January when protests in support of Russia’s most famous political prisoner, Aleksei A. Navalny, were brutally suppressed.
Mr. Muratov’s news outlet, Novaya Gazeta, is the only independent print publications still in circulation in Russia. “The situation is extremely difficult,” Mr. Muratov said afterward. “It is toxic.” But amid the toxicity, he’s found a way to deliver goodness.
~ Jake Cordell, Moscow Times
Big John Makes His Move
O’Hara’s Pub – Ground Zero, New York O’Hara’s Pub sits directly across the street from FDNY Fires Station #10 -- Ground Zero. History and location make It a place unlike any other; a sanctuary with a wounded, but still beating heart. A place that serves empathy along...
Interspecies Rescue
Time Magazine Time was running out for the mother whale and her calf as they lay beached on a sandbank. Wildlife volunteers had tried four times to drag them into deeper water but four times the stranded mammals came back. But then up bobbed Moko the dolphin - a...
You Explain It.
Debbie Parkhurst When Debbie Parkhurst choked on an apple in her home, she tried, unsuccessfully, to do the Heimlich maneuver on herself. Her dog, Toby, then reared up, pushed her to the ground, and jumped on her chest until the apple came loose! ...
