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
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! ...
Dream Wedding
Dream Wedding In 2010, Marine Corporal Juan Dominguez stepped on an IED while serving in Afghanistan. Dominguez was left a triple amputee, losing both legs and one arm. But that didn’t stop him from marrying the love of his life, Alexis. To honor the vet, the citizens...
Caffeine Crisis
Caffeine Crisis Sara Marsi -- Providence Rhode Island The way humans hunt for parking spaces and the manner in which animals hunt for food aren’t all that different. Suffering from severe caffeine deprivation, I was desperately circling the block to find a parking...
