Did you laugh at my post where autocorrect changed their AOK acronym to AOL and I didn't notice ?
Laughter is good for the soul and so are all of the wonderful stories we share!?
This story is fantastic!
A German woman was hiking The Pacific Crest Trail alone and got trapped in a snowstorm. She new she was going to die and phoned her family to say goodbye.
"Gröne, of Germany, started her journey on the PCT at the Mexican Border in May, and she was committed to make it to Canada.
This is about all three things, Good News, People and Ideas.
The Greek Island of Lesvos has been front and center during the refugee crisis for many years now. The people of that island have been amazing, truly compassionate and loving, especially since the Greek islanders have had little themselves. I have been following their story since the crisis began. The conditions of some of the camps in Lesvos are currently pretty dire due to what else? Politics. This award honors the people of the island.
The award "is a recognition of the sacrifices, courage and solidarity with which the residents of the island have reacted to the unprecedented humanitarian crisis of 2015," the mayor of Lesvos Spiros Galinos told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.
Sorry, forgot to state the actual award.
The people of the Greek island of Lesvos are poised to receive the inaugural John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service for their response to the refugee crisis.
I was thinking about Christmas yesterday and wishing my tree was already up with lights and carols playing from the stereo.
I turned on the music set to #27 and it had moved up to my Christmas cds! Yes!! I told my husband it wasn't me it was synchronicity and now I had to play them! (Haha)
So, when I looked for good news today, I found my "Christmas Lights" in headline in the Kansas City Star. And now I'm feeling all happy and shiny inside and out.
Good News, Good People, Love and Joy...read the whole thing!
"Nebraska town loved this firefighter's Christmas lights. After he died, they put them up."
Good news regarding Alzheimers disease. Meditation and music may help
A research team led by Dr. Kim Innes, a professor in the West Virginia University School of Public Health, has found that a simple meditation or music listening program may alter certain biomarkers of cellular aging and Alzheimer's Disease in older adults who are experiencing memory loss. Study findings, reported in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, also suggest these changes may be directly related to improvements in memory and cognition, sleep, mood, and quality of life.life. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-meditation-music-blood-markers-cellular.html#nRlv
I posted about share tables at schools in the past. Here is a fantastic article about how the Oakland School District repurposes un-eaten food so it doesn't become food waist.
https://thefern.org/2018/11/how-oakland-became-a-leader-in-cutting-school-food-waste/
Lovendures,
Thank you for finding this wonderful site and this amazing sustainability, use share and reuse idea for school lunch programs.
May it spread and grow everywhere!
Lovendures, What a great program. I sent the article to my town's Natural Resources committee to see they've considered this for our schools.
Turns out my little town is doing similar food recovery in the schools that they do in Oakland. In fact we teach other towns how to do it. I got this response from a neighbor who heads (as a volunteer) our town's environmental projects when I suggested we try the Oakland project: