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Wednesday, Nov 11 · Five good things · Three minutes
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KINDNESS • Google News Human Interest
Strangers tied their gear into a rope and saved two climbersThey thought she would go over the edge. She stopped just short.
Two climbers who slipped on the granite chains section of Half Dome last month survived because strangers tied their gear together into a rope. The engaged couple were descending the steepest stretch of the Yosemite National Park climb, the part that requires a permit and a strong stomach, when the woman lost her footing and began sliding toward the drop. She stopped just short of the edge. Her fiance left the chains to reach her and got stuck too. Brian and Ian Moran had already finished their own descent when they heard her scream. They expected to watch her go over. Instead, along with David Morgenstern and other hikers they had never met, they connected harnesses, slings and carabiners into a makeshift line. The group pulled the man up first, then regrouped for the woman, who had slid farther and had less to hold. Both walked off the rock. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
A pizza driver cares for her mom. Strangers raised $76,000.She came to apologize for the wrong order. Strangers opened their wallets.
A doorbell camera in Castle Rock, Colorado has helped raise more than $76,000 for a pizza delivery driver who spends her days caring for her 82-year-old mother. Suzanna Metcalf arrived at Pastor Neal Seiwert's home last year apologizing. She had mixed up the order and would have to return with the right one. She blamed getting old, though the exhaustion on her face said more. Metcalf works delivery shifts while serving as full-time caregiver, managing her mother's medical needs and the household bills. Instead of frustration, Seiwert, his wife Hailee and their three daughters stepped outside, put their hands on her shoulders and prayed. The clip went viral, and the comments almost all asked the same thing. How can we help? With Metcalf's permission, the family started a GoFundMe. More than 2,600 donors have since contributed, far past the original $10,000 goal. The correct pizza, by all accounts, did eventually arrive. Read the full story → | |||
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NATURE • Smithsonian Magazine
A college student found him alive. Now he's thriving.No formula, two polar bears nearby. They improvised.
A five-month-old walrus orphaned on a remote Alaska beach has a permanent home at SeaWorld Orlando, after a rescue that ran on honey water and improvisation. College student Violet Anniskett spotted the calf alive between two adult carcasses on September 11, while surveying the beach with U.S. Geological Survey biologist Tony Fischbach. "I was in shock," she told the New York Times. They named him Annautaq, after Anniskett's father, and secured approval from the Inupiaq community before intervening. Storms grounded any transport for days, so the pair sheltered the 185-pound calf in an abandoned building, fending off gulls and two active polar bears. Lacking formula, they fed him honey mixed with water. He refused to sleep unless someone stayed close. "He just put his snout on my leg, kind of, and he fell asleep," Anniskett said. He weighs about 250 pounds now and recently bopped noses with another rescued walrus through a barrier. Read the full story → | |||
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MOTIVATIONAL • Positive News
At 85, he returned to the stage with Alzheimer'sThe diagnosis could have ended it. He walked back on.
Peter Marinker, an 85-year-old actor diagnosed with Alzheimer's, returned to the London stage this September to play Krapp in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, a solo role about a man listening to recordings of his younger self. The four-day run at the Cockpit Theatre raised funds for the Alzheimer's Society. Marinker was diagnosed after struggling during rehearsals for an earlier production. This time he came back with an autocue, a prompt earpiece and extra rehearsal time, and the production folded in tape recordings of his own 1983 performance of the same part. "We are doing this production because of Peter's Alzheimer's, not in spite of it," said director Dave Wybrow. Krapp uses a tape recorder to remember the words of his young self. Marinker, who spent a career believing other people's characters so audiences would believe them too, found the parallel almost too neat. He said he felt very excited to do the show. Read the full story → | |||
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MOTIVATIONAL • Optimist Daily
Older refugee students tutored younger ones. Five years later, it's still running.The schools closed and stayed closed. So the students taught each other.
When COVID lockdowns closed schools in March 2020, Prince Bashangezi was finishing his A-Levels at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe, home to more than 17,000 people displaced by conflict. Formal teaching stopped. Prince and a group of fellow students at USAP Community School decided not to wait for it to come back. They founded TWEENS, short for Together We Educationally Empower Non-privileged Students, built around the one resource they had. Each other. Older refugee students tutored younger ones in the same camp, their credibility coming from living where their students lived rather than from any credential. The program, supported by Education Matters Africa, outlasted the lockdown that started it. Prince now studies computer science and economics at Pomona College in California, reached through a network that selects students from conflict zones. Marianne Langridge, who nominated him, wrote that he has turned losing his family during war into "loving service for others." TWEENS has been running for five years. Read the full story → | |||
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