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KINDNESS • CBS Sunday Morning
His daily wave turned strangers into a neighborhood family.A four-year-old named Roman Butzlaff started waving to drivers from his front porch, and the drivers started waving back. That was the whole plan. Then it became something bigger. Neighbors began slowing down to say hello. Strangers turned into regulars. Regulars turned into a kind of extended household, the sort that checks in on each other and remembers birthdays. Steve Hartman reported the story for CBS Sunday Morning, tracing how a small daily gesture from a small boy pulled a scattered street into something that felt like kin. Roman does not appear to grasp the scale of what he set off. He was mostly just glad people waved back. The neighborhood now considers itself a family, built by someone who cannot yet reach the top shelf.
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
Fifty-eight years later, his teenage recording becomes an albumA four-dollar thrift store record is about to become a real album, 58 years after the band that made it quietly broke up. In 2016, veteran music promoter Marcus Pollard bought an unlabeled, physically damaged vinyl on a whim, fell for its six songs, and spent two years hunting for anyone connected to it. "I searched in vain for two years trying to get any clue as to who was on the record, but to no avail," Pollard wrote on Facebook. A last-ditch post to a Canadian record appreciation group finally landed. The reply: "Hey, that's my record!" It came from Norman Roth, now 77 and working as a warehouse manager, who had recorded the live set as an 18-year-old with his Vancouver band, The Glass Cage. Pollard spent eight more years remastering the songs and building a booklet on the band's history. Where Did the Sunshine Go? arrives February 24, 2026. "It's just saying to the world, 'I was here,'" Roth told CTV News.
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DELIGHT • Good News Network
One finger, one typewriter, a million letters, one Wimbledon sceneJames Cook typed more than a million letters and symbols onto a single scene of Wimbledon's centre court, using only his right index finger. The 29-year-old artist, who works from a studio in Canning Town, East London, spent six weeks and roughly 378 hours on the piece, feeding the paper through a 1932 Smith Premier typewriter dozens of times. It has been viewed over 8 million times online. Cook first picked up a typewriter at 17 for a school project, tracking one down after an older couple overheard his dad asking a shopkeeper and offered him their 1950 Oliver Courier. He now owns around 100 machines, most sent by fans. The Wimbledon scene depicts Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, with hidden jokes throughout. His favorite is a woman on a ladder trying to sneak a look at the match because she could not get a ticket. Neither could Cook, which is why he drew it.
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NATURE • Nice News
A 9-inch corgi keeps 1,200 sheep in lineDaphne, a 7-year-old Welsh corgi who stands 9 inches from paw to shoulder, has spent the past five years helping move 1,200 sheep on a farm in Cumbria, England. She works behind the flock, barking on command to keep the sheep headed the right way, alongside a team of border collies named Silver, Roxy, Molly, and Panda. "Nowadays people don't think of corgis working on farms because of the Royals," owner Heather Hodgson told SWNS, noting the breed was originally bred to herd. "They are high-energy, very intelligent, and full of character." Hodgson received Daphne as a Christmas present from her husband, Bertie, in 2018. The dog is calm about 90 percent of the time, and thoroughly delighted the other 10 percent. One drawback of working so close to the ground: in muddy season, she needs frequent showers. Off the clock, she rides the farm quadbike and eats steak fat.
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DELIGHT • NPR Stories
A 9-year-old fiddler keeps the old dance hall aliveCommunity dance halls are filling up again across the American West, including the Kearney Community Hall in Banner, a ranching town in northeast Wyoming. Caller Courtney Caplan spotted the decades-old building sitting abandoned and, in 2010, cut the lock off the door with bolt cutters. She and other musicians knew there was a big oak floor inside. "I knew it was a great floor for dancing, and that was reason enough to save the building," Caplan said. A nonprofit formed, fundraised one pie auction at a time to fix the leaky ceiling and holey floor, and reopened in 2017. Now twinkling lights hang from the wooden beams and quilts cover the walls. Scott Gall likes watching the older kids teach the little ones to dance, phones nowhere in sight. The board is aging, so the next mission is finding successors. One contender is Emerson, age 9, who plays fiddle on stage. She gets nervous, but keeps going because it brings people joy.
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