Inspiring News
From the Good News Network
Sometimes the news can show the darker side of local and world events. But there is so much more! We found the Good News Network online and find their writing and focus to align well with our virtues and beliefs. We have included some excerpts below borrowed from their site. The link above with direct you to their site for further information and to subscribe directly.
Passionate Mushroom Researcher Spends Decade Unravelling Mystery of 200-year-old Museum Specimen
A passionate expert on fungi has spent a decade trying to discover the identity behind a preserved and mislabeled specimen in an Australian collection—all for the sake of science. Despite being one of the 5 kingdoms of life along with animals, plants, and two kinds of...
People Seen as Wise Share These Characteristics All Over the World
Across different cultures and countries, people perceive the wisest members of society to be logical and reflective as well as able to consider other people’s feelings and perceptions. This was found in a new study that examined people’s conceptions of wisdom as a...
Chef Returns to Kitchen Thanks to Floating Seat Invented After a Motorcycle Injury Made Him Immobile (WATCH)
An Austrian chef who lost almost all control of his legs is back on the line again thanks to a brilliant invention from a friend. A C-shaped metal hook suspended on a set of rails from the ceiling allows Chef Lammer to literally float through the kitchen, while...
6-Year-old Boy Found in the Forest After 150 Searched for Five Days
Relief flooded Vietnamese social media and news waves when reports that a young boy lost for 5 days in the tropical rainforest had finally been found. A search party of police, volunteers, and soldiers reached 150 in number as they combed the mountains in the...
Empty Nesters Travel to All 63 US National Parks: ‘Life’s Too Short’ But What is the Perfect Age for Adventures?
It’s American Adventures Month—and in a new survey of 2,000 Americans, over one-third reported that they’ve become more adventurous as they age. Even though 42 was deemed to be ‘the perfect age to go on an adventure’ (when averaging respondents’ answers), a huge...
The World’s Oldest Human Gives Us the Best Advice, Before She Died at 117 Years
“Order, tranquility, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets;” might these be a string of virtues that the Stoics strove to obtain in Classical Greece and Rome? No, not quite. They were entries in the list of all the things that have...
Stray Pup Chases a Doggie Day-Care Bus and Gets Adopted
A determined Lab has found a new home in Georgia after galloping alongside a doggie daycare bus until he won over the driver and found a new home. In Franklin County, the story begins when the driver of the ‘pup bus’ was doing his rounds to bring clients’ dogs to...
Virginia Pals Save Flowers From the Landfill, Redeploying Them to Bring Joy
A pair of Virginians who found themselves habitually dismayed by the amount of floral waste they saw over a series of weddings and funerals decided to launch a small nonprofit to reuse them. Friendly City Florals delivers flowers to hospice care homes, hospitals, and...
Daredevil 94-Year-old is Oldest Ever to Take on World’s Fastest Zip Line–Going 100mph
A 94-year-old Englishman decided to have a go on the world’s fastest zip line to raise money for his local hospice care. Great-grandfather-of-four David Aris lost his beloved wife, June, to cancer five years ago. For the last few months of her life, she had been cared...
