by | Aug 2, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
When Emily Dickerson lost a ring containing a jewel made of her father’s ashes, an unlikely set of heroes emerged to return it to her. The 17-year-old was out in San Antonio performing with her school choir, when at the end of the week the organizers decided to take...
by | Jul 30, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
A seven-year-old boy born without an arm has been able to hold a fishing rod with two hands for the first time. Alex Sparkes spent birthdays ‘wishing his arm would grow’, but now he’s happily casting alongside his dad using a new ‘life-changing’ $16,000 prosthetic...
by | Jul 30, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
The National Life Insurance Company was founded 175 years ago in Montpelier, Vermont—and, following historic flooding, they are still living up to their motto: ‘Believe in tomorrow. Do good today.’ They were set to hold their annual benefit concert, the Do Good Fest,...
by | Jul 27, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
In the south of Paris’ city center, the 14th arrondissement is conducting a neighborhood-wide experiment on deliberate living by consciously choosing to be good neighbors. It’s an effort aimed at combatting the paradox of the big city: millions of people crammed...
by | Jul 26, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
Researchers who studied the lifestyles of 700,000 Americans found men who had adopted all eight by age 40 lived around 24 years longer than those who had none. Women who did so lived 21 years longer, according to the findings. The eight habits are: being physically...
by | Jul 25, 2023 | Inspiration-GNN
From Toronto comes a lovely story about lost and found, and how this nearly universal feature of Western society can bring out the best in people. Dmitry Bondarenko, a Toronto-based artist and lecturer, had spent 10 years filling up a 5×7 black sketchbook of paintings...
