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Friday, Nov 13 · Five good things · Three minutes
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
Douglas, 103, got his D-Day medals back after 80 yearsHe returned his uniform in 1945. The medals went with it.
Douglas Halley, 103, got his war medals back just in time for Remembrance Day, nearly eighty years after he lost them by accident. The D-Day veteran left the three medals pinned to his uniform when he returned it at the end of the war in 1945, which is one way to misplace the most prestigious honors of your life. Halley was 20 when he landed on the Normandy beaches with the Royal Artillery in the second wave, conscripted from the shop where he was training to be a butcher. The reunion came through Joseph Smith, 27, who documents veterans' stories for a project called The Last of The Greats. After spotting a Facebook post from Halley's grandson Luke, Smith helped the family contact the Ministry of Defence and fill out the forms. "They may be just a piece of metal but the medals are something that I hold very close to my heart," Halley said, wearing them on his sweater. "They remind me of all my brothers in arms." Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • Good News Network
A 100-year-old walks her laps. Staff surprised her with cake.She never wanted a party. So they held it mid-lap.
Gretchen Sollo turned 100 on November 1, and two days early the staff at a Lowe's in Bradley, Illinois threw her the first birthday party of her life. After a stroke five years ago, Sollo started walking the aisles for daily exercise and to stay out of the weather. She has since logged an estimated 1,500 miles there, enough laps that associates now check her count and sometimes challenge her to races. On days she doesn't show up, they worry. Store manager Joe Jackson gave her the honorary title of store mom. When Sollo arrived for her laps on October 30, Jackson walked her to a decorated aisle lined by about 50 associates, friends and her son Hugh. There was a cake, a balloon arch and a personalized Lowe's vest. "I never wanted a birthday party," Sollo told People. "Means I missed out on a lot, I guess." They brought the party to the place she already walked. Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
A 5-year-old walked out holding Messi's handThe family thought they were just watching a game. There was more.
Huddy Droubay, a 5-year-old from Syracuse, Utah, who has Down syndrome, met David Beckham in the Inter Miami locker room on Wednesday, Oct. 28, before a match against FC Cincinnati. The road there started with a video. His mother, Melanie Droubay, posted a clip of Huddy on his city league team, smiling the entire time. "I don't even know if he kicked the ball," she told KSL. The video reached a couple million views, including Beckham's, who commented that it was the sweetest smile he'd seen on a soccer pitch. Signed jerseys followed, then a letter inviting the whole family to a game. By then Huddy had his own name for the co-owner, settled after he once sang "Happy birthday, Mr. David." Beckham gave him a tour, a turn in Lionel Messi's chair, and matching jerseys. Beckham's read "Mr. David" on the back. The family expected to watch the game. Instead, Huddy walked out of the tunnel holding Messi's hand. Read the full story → | |||
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MEDICINE • ScienceDaily Health
Fast, turning sports build bone better than lifting weightsThe gym weights did nothing. The pickup football match did.
The kind of exercise that builds bone may matter more than the time you spend doing it, according to researchers at Semmelweis University who reviewed 24 clinical studies covering 1,238 healthy adults. Fast, direction-changing sports did the most work. Recreational football and handball stood out, linked to increases of up to 45 to 46 percent in blood markers tied to bone formation. The team measured those markers because they reveal how bones respond within weeks, rather than waiting years for density scans. The surprise landed on resistance training, long recommended for skeletal health, which showed no significant effect. Walking and jogging produced no meaningful long-term change either. "High-intensity exercise may trigger early beneficial changes in bone formation, potentially helping to slow bone loss and support healthy aging," said Dr. Nóra Sydó, a clinical specialist and co-author. The researchers are clear that walking still helps your heart. Your bones, it turns out, want you to turn sharply. Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • Reasons to be Cheerful
His living moss roofs cut heat by 19 degrees.A tree was in trouble. He reached for moss instead of spray paint.
Philip Wallisfurth started working with moss in 2012, when citizens in Aachen, Germany, were fighting to save a 150-year-old tree from a shopping center. An aspiring street artist, he harvested moss from a local park, mixed it with yogurt as glue, and stuck two-meter letters onto the construction fence reading "greener living." People took pictures. Some hung flowers in small vases on the fence. Now 42 and based in Berlin, Wallisfurth makes what he calls bio-graffiti, and scientists have started confirming what the plant can do. A 2026 field study in Seoul found moss-based green roofs cut peak roof-surface temperatures by about 19 degrees Celsius during heat waves. Startups in London and the Netherlands now sell moss-covered concrete panels with built-in irrigation, because dry moss in direct sun can run hotter than bare mortar. One thing Wallisfurth insists on is that his moss stays alive. Most moss art in rooms is dried and preserved with chemicals. "It's dead," he says. Read the full story → | |||
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