I don’t have to tell you that the world is looking pretty grim lately. I’m sure I’m not the only one who keeps getting caught in a doom loop.
So apparently the way out of a personal doom loop is to do something small. Something good for you, or good for someone else. Make your bed. Love on your dog. Buy a friend coffee.
Post a blog of good news.
First, please enjoy these baby goats in pajamas.
Feeling better? Now you can read about Europe’s wind farm capacity.
Here’s a video of sixteen things that are going to help make the world a cleaner place.
Twenty-one African countries are working together to plant the Great Green Wall. It is already increasing resources and decreasing poverty, and they’re only 15% of the way done. (15% of that is a LOT, though!)
Plants may save the world. Again.
Plants are awesome, but how about the animals? Well, we’re working on that too.
Women in prison are saving endangered butterflies.
Bald eagles, sea otters, grizzlies and others are recovering.
I utterly adore whales, so the fact that humpbacks are also recovering is great news to me.
Check out this friendship for some serious warm fuzzy.
And the kakapo are getting a lot of help, thank goodness. They are ridiculously cute.
I watch a lot of nature documentaries, and I never heard of a pumice raft before. But this one might help repopulate the Great Barrier Reef after a bleaching event!
We’re working out how to save corals without volcanoes stepping in, too.
As for the human side of things–did you see this?
Scientists Successfully Turn Breast Cancer Cells Into Fat to Stop Them From Spreading
How cool is this? If we could thoroughly kick cancer’s a##…oh wow. Yes please. And here’s another killer we’re gonna knock out yet.
When it comes down to it, really, most people are good. You hear about the bad ones, of course, but we’ve got people like Mr. Rogers and Bill Ross, and peolpe like these.
Pawn Shop Owner Gives Motorized Wheelchairs to 580 People –Some Who Haven’t Been Outside in Years
Of course, that may lead to this sort of shenanigans…
Free Dad Hugs (as good as the hugs are, he’s also had people reach out to him, telling him they’re reaching out to children they haven’t talked to in years.)
It looks like kindness may be the answer after all. Mr. Rogers told us so.
Chip Gaines is saying it now. I can’t help it, I love Fixer Upper. And Chip and Joanna.
Okay. If you’re anything like me, I’ve got you sniffling at least. So let’s let Teddy the porcupine hopefully give you a snicker. Listen to his little voice!
Just in case I’m not the only person on the entire internet who hadn’t seen Tom Holland’s (Spiderman!) Lip Synch Battle… (He’s just so adorable, and he totally went for it and it’s marvelous!)
And, hopefully to let you go with some inspiration and strength, let’s have Heather Small sing us out. I love this song so much.
<3 It’s gonna be okay.