Good News - Thread

grahamg said:
Ruby Wax was interviewed on BBC radio this afternoon, and making many of the same comments you've made. She's releasing a new book on mindfulness, having released many similar others over the years, including, "How to be human".
My only worry is that by the time you've thought of all the things you're supposed to think about whilst improving yourself etc., your life will be gone by, (not that I don't feel we could all do with a little improving!). :)
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Not really. Because our just thinking won't help us improve ourselves, we have enact behaviors motivated by our thoughts. Everyone's definition of a successful or good life varies, of course, but i think most everyone can benefit from some introspection and mindfulness.

I've had a very interesting life, at times almost too full of interesting people and events; worked such a variety of jobs that i have the same basic human respect for people who do manual labor/custodial/food service work as i do for 'Professionals', CEOs, degreed scientists; raised 3 extremely decent, ethical compassionate human beings; experienced fun, adventure and love along the way but still applied my introspection and mindfulness well enough to realize sometime in my late 50's early 60's that i'd pretty much become the kind of person i'd aspired to being when i was in my teens.
At the time, my youth, there was emotional baggage i thought would weigh me down, keep me from my goals but somewhere along the way i unpacked them without acquiring replacements, all the while working living and enjoying my life.
 

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feywon said:
Not really. Because our just thinking won't help us improve ourselves, we have enact behaviors motivated by our thoughts. Everyone's definition of a successful or good life varies, of course, but i think most everyone can benefit from some introspection and mindfulness.

I've had a very interesting life, at times almost too full of interesting people and events; worked such a variety of jobs that i have the same basic human respect for people who do manual labor/custodial/food service work as i do for 'Professionals', CEOs, degreed scientists; raised 3 extremely decent, ethical compassionate human beings; experienced fun, adventure and love along the way but still applied my introspection and mindfulness well enough to realize sometime in my late 50's early 60's that i'd pretty much become the kind of person i'd aspired to being when i was in my teens.
At the time, my youth, there was emotional baggage i thought would weigh me down, keep me from my goals but somewhere along the way i unpacked them without acquiring replacements, all the while working living and enjoying my life.
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I liked your story, and I hope you'll forgive my saying there does seem to be parallel's with Ruby Wax's journey. :)
 
grahamg said:
I liked your story, and I hope you'll forgive my saying there does seem to be parallel's with Ruby Wax's journey. :)
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I had no idea who Ruby Wax was till i used a search engine just now. No doubt many people have similar stories when giving an overview synopsis of their lives, while the details are often unique to the individuals.
I'll leave it at that since this is supposed to be a good news thread.
 

My good news for today is that what I though was going to be a day filled with mostly negative experiences for me to endure, turned out to be fairly decent overall. It wasn't the best day that I've had so far this week but if it's the worst one, then I feel that I can endure and maybe even thrive, in time. And that for me is most definitely, GOOD NEWS! I hope that your day, if it wasn't all that you wished, will be brighter tomorrow. I also hope that you'll share that wonderful smile of yours with as many folks as possible. Why, you could even take a selfie to remind yourself that for just an instant, you had something to smile about when the news isn't all good news.
 
This morning a FB friend shared a video that made me smile broadly. i posted it on the 'What Made you Happy Today" thread. But wanted to mention here that one thing we might do besides share random Stories or videos we stumble across is share sources for 'good news.
Steve Hartman's "On the Road" segments almost always contain 'feel good' stories. Sometimes there's a tinge of bittersweetness to the story, but that's how life works--few events, especially involving other people are purely good/happy or bad/sad. And you don't have watch all the regular news on CBS to see them...just search "Steve Hartman On the Road" on YouTube and they'll pop up.
 
feywon said:
This morning a FB friend shared a video that made me smile broadly. i posted it on the 'What Made you Happy Today" thread. But wanted to mention here that one thing we might do besides share random Stories or videos we stumble across is share sources for 'good news.
Steve Hartman's "On the Road" segments almost always contain 'feel good' stories. Sometimes there's a tinge of bittersweetness to the story, but that's how life works--few events, especially involving other people are purely good/happy or bad/sad. And you don't have watch all the regular news on CBS to see them...just search "Steve Hartman On the Road" on YouTube and they'll pop up.
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With a name like Good News Network, I think that it's refreshing to find such truth in naming a website. Have a look and see if you agree! It's not a crime to prefer good news over bad news, yet! And that's GOOD NEWS! Thanks for the inspiration, feywon!
 
I don't know how I could have forgotten to post this. A good friend of mine who is a such a nice person and a seven time Emmy winning composer as well as a musician and singer finally got a kidney transplant last month after years of waiting. He spent a few of them doing self dialysis which was not as physically taxing as regular dialysis; that allowed him to keep gigging. He looks great and says he's ready to get back to his next music project.
 
Good news, I'll be asleep soon and maybe dreaming of several of you, who knows? But the real good news is that I'll be back tomorrow with a whole new, full bucket of sunshine and my plan is to spread it all over the place. So, until we meet again, I hope that all of your news is GOOD NEWS! I bet that you hope so too! Happy trails, for now!
 
Chris P Bacon said:
Good news, I'll be asleep soon and maybe dreaming of several of you, who knows? But the real good news is that I'll be back tomorrow with a whole new, full bucket of sunshine and my plan is to spread it all over the place. So, until we meet again, I hope that all of your news is GOOD NEWS! I bet that you hope so too! Happy trails, for now!
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Sweet Dreams, Crispy.
 
Well, it looks as if we've all made it through yet another weekend and that's GOOD NEWS!

I hope that your upcoming week is filled with interesting events and mostly pleasant ones too!

I look forward to reading whatever it is that you'll share in the new week. Keep your shiny sides up!
 
Good News: The internet makes it possible for even a small village like mine to keep residents informed of situations that effect them. Last night between 7:30 and 8:30 pm our water pressure went to zilch. House is uphill from road so if pressure low for village, it's lower for us. i'd told my daughter it had to be equipment failure or unlikely as it seemed, and 'accident of some kind involving a pumping station'. After she got home she found the Village website, which i've bookmarked now for future reference, and the good news that crews were working to fix it, by 3:30am when Zoe-dog wanted out we had water again. The affected pumping station is on Eastern edge of town, we're on Western edge but doubt it is more than 3 miles.

Here's link to site, give it a minute to load, then scroll down to the Village instagram you should see photo of damaged building (likely offending vehicle is to left of it) and if you enlarge the phot you can see water is leaking out of building.

This tickles the heck out of me---the internet being put to such a good use, cause i don't know about you--but i always feel better once i know the work crews are out. They might have had it done sooner but T-storms were moving thru and there was heavy rain for an hour or so from 10 to 11pm.

https://www.villageofcuba.com/
 
@feywon I have a brother who works for the local electric company and outages from accidents happen to power lines often too. They do usually send notices out that you can see via phone but for many people, when their electricity is out so is their internet. But yes, I think too that things like you mention are great ways to use the internet to keep people abreast of what's going on around them. Great post, thanks for sharing and I'm happy that your water is flowing once more.

Those who know choose H2O! 😋
 
Oh, good news for sure! I have completed 10,000 km on my car touring Western Canada and I'm still alive. That would be about 6,000 miles for the good people south of the border. No accidents, no one robbed me, I never got food poisoning since I am beg on doing my own cooking on a propane camping stove. No grizzly bears ate me up nor did I fall in a fall flowing mountain stream and drowning. This is all good news.
 
I think that it's nice that we have this little corner to read a bit of good news. Or maybe it's just happy news sometimes but happy news seems better than doom and gloom. I try to keep the bad news away from my eyes but there's just something about it that draws me in. It's a lot easier to find bad news than it is to find good news. But be that as it may, I've found a new source called Happy News that seems to have some good news to share. Click the link and see what you think! Hey, I made a rhyme, now that's GOOD NEWS!
 
Chris P Bacon said:
Good news for us men. I hope I'm not offending anyone but we're all adults here (supposedly so) and this article speaks of a normal bodily function that men have or can maybe improve upon, once they have the knowledge. I'll post the link and you can decide for yourselves if you want to read the article or, if you're a man, avail yourself of the information provided. Here it is -

From Harvard University -

Study: Ejaculation and prostate health strongly linked​

(Find more at - https://www.optimistdaily.com)
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They would lose the Seinfeld contest.
 
The bad news is that my nice bicycle was stolen yesterday while I was visiting a dying friend in a hospice. The good news is that I got back home on the city bus without a ticket and I didn't get caught.
 
It looks as if there either wasn't much good news to be shared today or maybe people are tired of good news. Even so, I just couldn't resist sharing a little good news of my own. And that would be that I had one Ebay auction close, earlier this evening but I have a dozen more that will be closing just moments from now. So, it looks as if I made a little Do-Re-Mi today! And not so much that I need it but a few extra $$$'s is certainly GOOD NEWS to me! If today wasn't wonderful for you, that just means that you're one more closer to a day that just might be! Every day doesn't have a happy ending but every day is a new beginning. Happy trails, to you, until we meet again!
 
feywon said:
Good News: The internet makes it possible for even a small village like mine to keep residents informed of situations that effect them. Last night between 7:30 and 8:30 pm our water pressure went to zilch. House is uphill from road so if pressure low for village, it's lower for us. i'd told my daughter it had to be equipment failure or unlikely as it seemed, and 'accident of some kind involving a pumping station'. After she got home she found the Village website, which i've bookmarked now for future reference, and the good news that crews were working to fix it, by 3:30am when Zoe-dog wanted out we had water again. The affected pumping station is on Eastern edge of town, we're on Western edge but doubt it is more than 3 miles.

Here's link to site, give it a minute to load, then scroll down to the Village instagram you should see photo of damaged building (likely offending vehicle is to left of it) and if you enlarge the phot you can see water is leaking out of building.

This tickles the heck out of me---the internet being put to such a good use, cause i don't know about you--but i always feel better once i know the work crews are out. They might have had it done sooner but T-storms were moving thru and there was heavy rain for an hour or so from 10 to 11pm.

https://www.villageofcuba.com/
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My ex-father-in-law was from Cuba and I used to make deliveries there on my NAPA four-corner route.
 
Verisure said:
The bad news is that my nice bicycle was stolen yesterday while I was visiting a dying friend in a hospice. The good news is that I got back home on the city bus without a ticket and I didn't get caught.
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I bought a new bike today as well as a locomotive-proof chain and a padlock. I went to visit my friend again today but this time I locked up my new bike with all the paraphernalia and I parked it "inside" the hospital.
 

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