Good News and Happenings
There is always more good happening in the world than bad. MUSIC is always good news. Everywhere you turn there is ongoing news about COVID-19. Most of it has been number-related and bad news stories. For many, including me, these…
Caregivers: Our Unsung Heroes
Our Unsung Heroes One group of unsung heroes in our society are our caregivers. Most often they are associated with medical care. They include retirement and nursing home workers, hospital staff, nurses, nurse practitioners, doctors, physiotherapists, chiropractors, paramedics, orderlies, emergency…
Good News and Happenings
International Women’s Day Over the past 100, 50 and even 10 years, women’s voices, actions and drive towards equality have been seen, heard and felt with increasing regularity and results. While there is still a long way to go, one…
Saying Nice Things
We all like to be complimented and saying nice and deserved things to other people, to me, fits into the good news and good happenings category. A friend of mine, John Heeney, sent me this letter below from Robert…
Benefits of Volunteering and Giving: Reducing Pain
I recently read the January newsletter from Volunteer Canada There was a great article on the benefits of volunteering and giving. The article dealt with the well-known fact that volunteering and giving (including money), have many benefits for the giver. There are…
Giving Tuesday – December 3
Giving Tuesday was started in 2012 by the 92nd Street YMCA in New York and the U.N. It was created as a response to the commercialization and consumerism of the post-Thanksgiving season, and in particular, the spending frenzy of Black Friday.…
World Polio Day – Oct. 24
We do not hear much about polio these days. That is because polio has been all but eliminated around the world. Canada has been polio-free for many years. In 2018, according to the World Health Organization, there were only 136…
Climate Change: How About Planting A Tree?
It was good to see so much media coverage the last week of September around climate change. Much of it was about Greta Thunburg, the 16-year-old from Sweden, whose outspokenness lead to millions, (many of them young), demonstrating around the…
First Responders – Thank You
Over the past few years, I have heard the term First Responders used more and more. It is a term employed, sometimes generically, to people who are the first to arrive and aid at the scene of an emergency such…
World Ozone Day: An Environmental Good News Story
Sept 16th was World Ozone Day. I heard nothing about it until today, Sept 17th. If I did not hear about it, it likely meant most people did not hear about it either. This is too bad because the UN…