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MOTIVATIONAL • InspireMore
An 18-year-old sailed solo to Hawaii. His mom waited on the dock.Ollie Bergquist, 18, sailed solo from California to Hawaii, a 20-day crossing he documented from the boat on Instagram. The Oregon teenager funded the trip by working summers at a woodyard from the age of 13, coming home exhausted and studying sailing anyway. "This has been the most challenging and difficult year of my life, but also the most rewarding," he wrote when he reached land. His mother, Tia Bergquist, followed the whole thing from home, refreshing the same posts everyone else saw. "If he was late posting or something, I would start getting worried," she told Hawaii News Now. Every so often a text would arrive: "I'm OK, Mom." She was waiting on the dock when he arrived. Ollie plans to slow down for now, meet people, and point the boat toward the South Pacific next season.
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DELIGHT • Good News Network
At four, she named her husband. Max was right on time.A 25-year-old home video played at a May wedding reception in California turned out to have named the groom two decades early. Max Creamer and Jordan Rosenberg met at a Halloween party about ten years ago at San Diego State University and got engaged on a California beach. Weeks before the wedding, Jordan's parents, Lou and Jill Rosenberg, dug up a recording of Jordan at age four describing her future wedding in detail. She wanted a moon bounce and face painting. Her guest list named three friends, and all three were there as adults. Then Lou asked who her husband would be. "Max!" the four-year-old answered. The videographer turned to the groom, who stood there stunned as Jordan burst into tears. "I was just as surprised as everyone else," she told PEOPLE. The reception clip has since drawn more than 22 million views. Jordan did have a childhood friend named Max. She hadn't thought of him in ages.
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
A disposable camera, a toddler's photos, and 3.4 million tearsA Japanese photographer working under the name Yusa Film approached a young family on a bench with a disposable camera and a request: shoot whatever you want for a few days, and I'll turn it into a video. The couple, with their two-year-old son Tsuntsun, agreed. The dad asked, cheekily, whether the camera was free and whether Film would also cover developing. "Of course," Film replied. What came back was more than snapshots. Each parent wrote their son a letter. "Dear Tsuntsun, You are the joy of our lives! I'm more excited to see how your story unfolds than to watch the final episode of One Piece!" the father wrote. The film Film stitched together has now been watched 3.4 million times, largely by people trying not to cry at their desks. The photos are blurry, candid, and lit by imperfect overhead kitchen bulbs. Some of them were taken by Tsuntsun.
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DELIGHT • CBS Sunday Morning
Listening bars are spreading, one record at a timeGuests at Shibuya HiFi, a listening bar in Seattle, leave their shoes at the door before settling into a back room to hear full albums start to finish. An evening might run from Bjork to David Bowie. The sessions, about 80 a month, regularly sell out at $20 a ticket, which buys people the chance to listen to records they could stream at home for free. One fan showed up with a Bowie tattoo and called it the closest thing she could get to a concert. These venues have spread across the U.S. in recent years, from Edina, Minnesota, to Kansas City. Devon Turnbull, an artist and engineer who builds handmade audio equipment, installed one inside Andrew Carnegie's former private library at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York. He calls it "HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3." He is already sketching No. 4. "I just love making this stuff," Turnbull said.
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MOTIVATIONAL • Good Good Good
She braced for despair. The teenagers wrote about hope.An editor who spent six months reading hundreds of poems submitted by teenagers came away with a conclusion that surprised them. The verses were full of hope. Going in, the expectation had leaned toward despair, the assumption being that adolescents writing today would put grief and anxiety on the page. Some did. But the larger pattern ran the other way, toward a stubborn brightness that showed up again and again in the submissions. Teenagers wrote about the future as something worth wanting. They wrote about small kindnesses and the people who noticed them. The editor, who had braced for the worst, read the stack and found the opposite waiting. It turns out the next generation has been paying attention, and quietly making up its own mind.
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