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Five good things · Three minutes
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
Look into each other's eyes and dance.Nobody could agree what the dance meant. Most stopped trying.
A choreographer named Damian Malvacio posted a video this week of an improvised dance between himself and a gray-haired woman in an empty studio, and it has quietly spread across social media. The caption is a single instruction: "Look into each other's eyes and dance." The two move slowly to a piano solo, letting the music and their silent read of each other set the steps. Commenters could not agree on what they were watching. A mother and son. A woman remembering an old love. Two strangers meeting for the first time. Most decided it did not matter. The clip comes out of Yo Bailo, Malvacio's dance program for people over 60, which asks for no experience at all. "Reclaiming the body happens through connection," he told Sala Verdi in an interview translated from Spanish. The program's website calls it "a declaration of presence, beauty, and transformation." The woman just kept her eyes on his and moved.
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NATURE • Good Good Good
A vet built a paralyzed kitten wheels from Hot WheelsThe shelter had no gear for a kitten this size. It had a toy aisle.
A shelter kitten named Gelato couldn't use his back legs, so a veterinarian built him a wheelchair out of Hot Wheels parts. The rig was small enough to fit a toy car and steady enough to hold a cat, which is a narrow engineering window. Gelato took to it. The vet, working with what the shelter had on hand, cobbled together a frame that let the kitten push forward on his front paws while the wheels carried the rest. Recovering animals often need weeks to trust new equipment. Gelato used the miniature contraption to zoom around the floor, exactly as intended, ignoring the fact that his transportation was designed for a race car. Resourceful care rarely comes with a budget line for tiny wheels. This one arrived from a toy aisle.
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SCIENCE • Good News Network
India's first privately built rocket roared into orbitIt could have flown empty. It carried a debris-hurling robot instead.
Skyroot Aerospace launched its four-stage Vikram-1 rocket into low-Earth orbit on July 18th, making the Hyderabad company the operator of India's first privately built rocket to reach orbit. Vikram-1 lifted off at 12:05 p.m. local time from a launch pad on the barrier island of Sriharikota, and by 17 minutes of flight it had hit every performance metric. Mission control called it a "grand success," and the control room roared. The rocket can carry more than 770 pounds of payload, and it did not fly empty. Aboard were customer satellites from the German firm DCUBED and two Indian companies. One of them, Cosmoserve, paid for a robotic drone called Embrace, whose job is to grab space debris and hurl it out of Earth's orbit. "The demand for services enabled by satellites in space will only continue to grow," said co-founder Pawan Kumar Chandana. India now has a national route to space, alongside China and the US.
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
Stevie Nicks misheard one vowel and wrote a hitShe was just answering a question. Nicks heard a song.
Stevie Nicks named one of her biggest solo hits after mishearing a single vowel. The story, told by Nicks herself and lately revived by the Instagram account RockBlog, traces back to a conversation with Jane Benyo, then Tom Petty's wife. Nicks asked when the couple had met. Benyo, drawling, said "at the age of seventeen." Nicks heard "edge of seventeen," grabbed a menu, and started writing. "She didn't ever think I was ever serious," Nicks recalled. The song landed on her 1981 debut album Bella Donna and climbed to 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its meaning shifted after John Lennon died and after Nicks lost her Uncle John, whose hand she held as he passed. Rolling Stone later ranked it 217 on its greatest songs list. Benyo, for her part, laughed off the whole thing. She had simply been answering a question about her husband.
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KINDNESS • InspireMore
Ten days after the fireworks, Fig came home.Ten days gone. Then the cruiser door opened.
An Australian shepherd named Fig bolted during her family's Fourth of July celebration in Tulare County, spooked by fireworks, and vanished for 10 days. Her owner, Kattie Cassaday, filed a report with the sheriff's department, drove for miles, and papered the area with flyers. "I felt like, she's out there. I know she's out there if I could just find her," she told ABC News. Sergeant Ricky Morley worked the tip that eventually led to whoever had found the dog. Bodycam footage shows him pulling up to Cassaday, and then Fig leaping out of his cruiser. "I've been doing this for about 20 years and just to have a good story with a happy ending, that's worth it right there," Morley said. Cassaday had trusted him from the start. "As soon as I talked to Sergeant Morley, I just knew this person is gonna find my dog," she said.
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With love, The Editor
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