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Wednesday, Nov 4 · Five good things · Three minutes
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KINDNESS • Upworthy
A stranger donated her kidney. The wait vanished.She wanted her traveling days back. A stranger was already in testing.
Stacy Hobson was told she faced a five-to-seven-year wait for a kidney transplant, and that she should start dialysis. She said no. She wanted to keep traveling. "I'm like, if I can't do the things that I love, it's not living for me," Hobson told Action News 5. In May 2025, she was in Greece, newly at peace with whatever came. About an hour and a half from her home, in Memphis, Jenny Joyner had just started testing to donate a kidney to a stranger. An Ole Miss admissions counselor and a mother of three, Joyner had seen a friend's Facebook post about living donation and couldn't let it go. "Facebook and God, to be honest," she said. Then her husband set down a drink at dinner in a plastic cup with a transplant group's logo. "I didn't even know we had the cup," she said. The surgery came in August. The two women met in early November, both recovered. Joyner says she'd do it again. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Google News Human Interest
A passing crane crew turned around and saved her lifeThey had a crane and somewhere to be. They turned around.
A woman trapped in her car under a pickup truck was freed Tuesday morning after a passing crane crew turned around to help, Payette County officials said. The crash happened at the intersection of Highway 52 and Highway 72 in New Plymouth, Idaho, with the 911 call logged at 7:01 a.m. Firefighters arriving at the scene found the pickup resting on top of the woman's vehicle. Then they spotted a large crane from Orizabas Crane Service of Emmett driving nearby. Deputy Travis Downey was sent to catch up with it and ask for help. The crew came back. A nurse who saw the crash had already stopped to tend to the driver before responders arrived. "We truly believe that because of the quick thinking, willingness to help and selfless actions of the Orizabas Crane Service crew, this woman's life was saved," Sheriff Andy Creech said. The driver had minor injuries and is expected to be okay. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
Sikhs and Hindus are rebuilding the mosques Partition destroyedThe state split in two in 1947. The neighbors never did.
Across several villages in India's Punjab state, Sikhs and Hindus are rebuilding mosques destroyed after Partition, often on land donated by neighbors of another faith. The Guardian documented the work in Jakhiwal, Punawal and Umarpura, where some of the organizers are old enough to remember the violence that split the state in 1947. In Jakhiwal, 77-year-old Bibi Rajinder Kaur, a Sikh, urged her grandson to donate land for a new mosque. In Punawal, Jaspal Sharma, 48, from a family of Hindu priests, gave his own land, then threw a feast for the whole village when the building was finished in February. The call to prayer, silenced in some Western countries, suits him fine. He said it made for "a lively atmosphere." Everyone pitched in. "Some gave money; others donated bricks and cement," Sharma told the Guardian. In Umarpura, local Sikhs restored an antique Muslim shrine, no court order required.
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
No hat, no tips. Pasquale just wanted to dance.No tip jar. No camera. They didn't even want the video.
Two older Italians set up a speaker in Piazza Testaccio one summer evening, pressed play, and danced to Michael Jackson's "Beat It." They kept going for about 20 minutes, moving through five or so songs with simple choreography that shifted slightly each time. Sean Finelli, who runs the Rome tour operator The Tour Guy, filmed the clip on August 6 at around 7 p.m. and posted it to Instagram, where it passed five million views. There was no hat for tips and no one else filming. When Finelli offered the dancers the footage afterward, they didn't want it. At the end they walked off in separate directions. The man later appeared in the comments. "Hello everyone, I'm Pasquale, the gentleman in the video," he wrote. A commenter said he takes a group dance class at the local senior center. Another clarified the pair are friends, not a couple. They just wanted to dance.
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NATURE • Optimist Daily
One man's campaign became a 478,000-hectare home for koalasTen years of lobbying. Then the forest was worth more left standing.
New South Wales has established the Great Koala National Park, a 478,000-hectare reserve between Kempsey and Grafton on the Mid North Coast that will protect more than 100 species of flora and fauna. It is the state's second-largest national park, arriving after more than a decade of campaigning and over 14 hours of parliamentary debate. The campaign started with conservationist Ashley Love, who began lobbying after residents told him the region's koalas were not as common as they once were. "It became too much to ignore," he said. Carbon credits made the finances work. The federal Clean Energy Regulator registered a project across more than 117,000 hectares of former logging forest, and by ending native logging there, the government can sell credits from land left standing. Protected forest, it turns out, earns more than felled timber. Love says he will keep pushing for the sections that didn't make it in. Read the full story → | |||
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