Inspirational/Good-feeling

[Randi]

Glad it was useful!

When I was little, I remember getting little boxes of raisins as candy

[Randi]

A teen with autism lost motivation for his walks to the post office. So strangers are sending cards to his P.O. Box

[Michael]

[Morgan]

Great story to start the day!

[AvastMH]

Can't get to the article but I get the gist of it. These are times when letting a community know about a problem is so wonderful. There are always people out there kind enough to help - they just need to know how

[Randi]

‘It’s going to take a village’: Community group prepares to deliver 3,000 meals before Thanksgiving

On Sunday, Paul Winestock, 55, scooped spoonfuls of mashed potatoes into plastic to-go boxes, drizzled gravy onto slices of turkey and shoveled in a helping of green beans.

He ran outside to help half a dozen volunteers distribute masks near his Rhode Island Avenue restaurant, His and Hers, and directed more to hand out masks outside a Family Dollar store across the street. Then, adding another item to a growing to-do list, Winestock dashed down the street, to his event space called Fun It Up, to check on a group of women learning how to apply eyelash extensions.

“I had a vision when I came out, this is what I wanted to do,” said Winestock, a D.C. native who has spent the past seven years since leaving prison rebuilding his home in Ward 5.

He was arrested and indicted as the head of a loose-knit drug organization in 1990 and sentenced to two life terms, without the possibility of parole, in 1993.

More than two decades later, with a change in federal sentencing rules and good behavior, Winestock was released in 2013 to “be part of the solution, not the problem,” he said.

On Sunday morning, Winestock oversaw the visions he dreamed up in prison — a Thanksgiving meal giveaway that will feed nearly 3,000 Washingtonians by Thursday and a cosmetology class for budding entrepreneurs. He also distributed free masks to a community disproportionately ravaged by the coronavirus.

[Michael]

Those stories are so heart-warming and affirming!

[Randi]

A high school student needed help with tuition, so an unlikely group stepped up: Prison inmates

[Randi]

A D.C. lawyer learned English as a child from a teacher who tutored her each day. She found her to say thank you.

[Randi]

It started as a spontaneous pep talk. Then this Starbucks barista became a lifeline for a boy with cancer.

[Michael]

[Morgan]

You have outdone yourself on this one, Randi!

[AvastMH]

Amazing stories that you find Randi - and so heartening

[Randi]

Thank you!

[studentforever]

If watching animals at play cheers you up try this clip

(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-55884236)

[Morgan]

Who can not smile when seeing a turtle dancing in the rain!

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/02/1 ... ng-videos/

Hope this makes you smile/

[Randi]

It does indeed
Thanks!

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

Awwwwwe that's fun alright

[studentforever]

A versatile dentist meets koala with joyful results

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-56107871