Hope its a lovely weekend as well
bitrhday hugs !
With apologies to Stormie for this being the wrong kind of parrot found this classic sailor's yarn picture by way of birthday greetings ! It is being posted early because I have a few days holiday and may not have much internet access,
Heres hoping you have a good day !
Heres hoping you have a good day !
The last Lent good news story comes from the Upper Nile area of Egypt and concerns a young couple,Sally and Akram, who are the first from their village to marry across the Christian/ Muslim divide.Sally and Akram's wedding
Thanks to
mylodon for sharing this Lent and to our readers and occasional commenters -as it turns out the 'news' in the mainstream media and the nutty fruitcake media (sometimes hard to distinguish these days) has been even more dire than we could have known when setting out on the course of deliberately highlighting good news stories.
It makes the stories hard to find, and in the face of the tough stuff it is often tempting to be drawn into going into a different mode, but these stories of boundary= crossing kindness and love and of the concern for others and the simple actions that change lives, need telling.Just looking for them in itself has been a fascinating exercise.
As you may tell I posted this before going on to read mylodon's entry for Lent 44 -and have managed to highlight the same story :) As it is such a good story I am leaving it up for today as well.
Thanks to
mylodon for sharing this Lent and to our readers and occasional commenters -as it turns out the 'news' in the mainstream media and the nutty fruitcake media (sometimes hard to distinguish these days) has been even more dire than we could have known when setting out on the course of deliberately highlighting good news stories.It makes the stories hard to find, and in the face of the tough stuff it is often tempting to be drawn into going into a different mode, but these stories of boundary= crossing kindness and love and of the concern for others and the simple actions that change lives, need telling.Just looking for them in itself has been a fascinating exercise.
As you may tell I posted this before going on to read mylodon's entry for Lent 44 -and have managed to highlight the same story :) As it is such a good story I am leaving it up for today as well.
Here in a bit of a departure for me is a football story -it is the encouraging account of how how Dortmund fans opened their homes to provide meals and somewhere to sleep for stranded AC Monaco supporters following the delay of their match
I knew I would get numbering wrong somewhere along the line ! But there have been the right number of posts - its just the numbers that had a blip
Today a story which is as yet so strange that it almost seem invented, as tends to be the case with many medical/ scientific breakthroughs. New Hands here
Today a story which is as yet so strange that it almost seem invented, as tends to be the case with many medical/ scientific breakthroughs. New Hands here
Today news from a hospital trial of something that is a new idea in a way -and now seems common sense as so often good ideas do premature baby care
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