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MOTIVATIONAL • Good News Network
He walked past, and his kids chased him outsideThree years of recovery. Then he walked past the couch.
A father who spent three years recovering from a brain injury after a car accident walked independently again in front of his children, and they noticed the way children notice anything that interrupts the TV. His older daughter and younger son were zoned out on the couch when he ambled past. Then the double take. "Daddy, you're walking!" the daughter said. "Yeah, he can walk!" cheered the son. Both got up and followed him out of the house into the surrounding pine forest, repeating it like they could not quite trust it. "Dad you're walking! You're actually walking!" The son asked his father to hold his hand as they went. The clip, posted to TikTok, drew 1.7 million likes and 16,000 comments. One commenter noticed what the children were saying to him, hold my hand, be careful, were the exact words a parent says to a child first learning to walk.
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KINDNESS • Sunny Skyz
Same position, same number 6, the sisters finally metTwo rivals, one field. Then they saw each other's faces.
Samantha Rensvold, 19, had always known she had a younger sister somewhere. Because the adoption was closed, she had no way to find her. Then, at a softball tournament in Montana, a teammate pointed at a player on the opposing team who looked exactly like her. "I was like, 'There's no way that this would happen to me right now,'" Samantha recalled. She didn't approach the girl, afraid of being wrong. Back home, her mother checked the roster and recognized the name Kyann as the one Samantha's birth mother had given her younger daughter. The two mothers compared notes and confirmed the hospital where both girls were born. "There was no way we weren't," Samantha said. The sisters grew up 400 miles apart, raised by different families. They both played volleyball in high school. They both wore number 6 at the same position. They even share the same little giggle. They now attend college in different states and stay in touch. Read the full story → | ||||||||||
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
He wasn't looking for a miracle. Strangers brought one anyway.He told the cameras he wanted nothing. Someone brought a crew anyway.
A silver maple crashed through Gilbert Kirk's roof during a recent storm in Wyandotte County, Kansas, trapping the 71-year-old and his dog Beetle underneath for hours. Kirk told KCTV 5 he wasn't looking for a miracle or an insurance handout. Two days later, a stranger showed up on his debris-covered lawn and said he would be back in 30 minutes with lumber and a crew. "OK, whatever, you know," Kirk remembered thinking. "And then the next thing I know, he's back with a load of lumber, and the next thing I know, there were just trucks." The crew who tarped the maple-shaped gash in his house turned out to be local residents, among them Steven Vega. "We just did what was right and needed to be done," Vega wrote. Kirk now has a roof again, plus a small arsenal of fans drying the place out. He has called Vega every day to say thank you.
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KINDNESS • NPR Stories
The origami crane held a message she found ten years laterShe kept the crane for ten years. She never thought to open it.
Rika Matsuda was 7 when she got a new bike, rode it fast into a wall, and discovered the brakes didn't work. Her foot turned purple. A man in his 20s, large and wearing a suit, walked over and asked if she was okay. He washed her injured foot at a water fountain, lent her his phone to call her grandfather, and, while they waited, taught her to fold an origami crane. "Maybe he wanted me to think about the paper instead of my foot," she said. When her grandfather arrived, the man smiled, handed her the crane, and left without a word. Matsuda put it in her desk. Ten years later, at 17, writing for a class assignment, she wondered whether he'd scribbled something on the paper while she was on the phone. She rushed home and unfolded the crane. He had. Inside was a Japanese expression meaning, roughly, "cherish the moment."
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
Her mom found her culture late. Margot started at four months.She was a teenager before her first powwow. Her daughter was four months.
A four-month-old named Margot has danced her first jingle dress powwow in Saskatchewan, with some help from a jolly jumper harness, after her mother posted the video and watched it reach 1.5 million views. Morgan Opikokew strapped her daughter into the harness so she could bounce along in a fuchsia jingle dress, a Cree and Ojibwe healing tradition marked by rows of rolled metal cones that ring like rain. Margot cannot walk yet. The harness does the rest. Opikokew did not attend her own first powwow until she was a teenager. "Growing up, I never really knew my culture. I didn't even know that I was Indigenous, Cree, First Nations," she told CTV News. She wanted something different for Margot. The jolly jumper, as it happens, was invented by an Indigenous person, which gives the whole scene a certain symmetry. One viewer wrote simply, "Her widdle feets."
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