Nice News You Can Use: January 2010

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

January 19th, 2010

Wow... After the storm comes the quiet and, it seems, the charity.

You HAVE to watch this video about a Hatian Restaurant owner and what he is doing for his fellow Haitians.

and....
Check out this video about an awesome man in New York who saved an 88-year-old woman who was pushed on the subway rail....

Everyone, well, most everyone, is willing to help another person out, but, the miracle with this incident is that the man literally risked his life without knowing the person or questioning it for a second. He also helped the crowd, because, in essence, they probably were frozen with fear knowing that they were faced with the same situation.

And, just for an added touch of "nice news" today, enjoy the image above of a team that risks their lives every day so that others may live.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

January 5, 2010

Today, why not give someone in your life, your office or your community kudos?

In our search today for some HAPPY news, we found this .

When you click, you will be able to nominate some amazing person you know who volunteers and works through sweat and tears for Channel 8's "People Making a Difference."

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Oh, and don't forget...

To hug yourself today too...

January 3, 2010

Sooooo, many of you may have heard of the movie, The Blind Side, because of Sandra Bullock's starring role and the supplementary media attention.

That being said, how many of you watched the 20/20 episode about the true story behind the story?

Simply good story about good people at it's best and about the domino effect one good deed offsets.

The story and the show were so inspiring that, during the broadcast, several people called in and offered to cancel their holiday vacation plans and donate the money to the cause(s) addressed in the show.

Click here to get an overview of the show, and, of course, you can always go to Hulu.com to view it. Truly worth the hour.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Love Knows No Species

As you might guess, Yvonne and I are BIG animal fans.
One of the reasons for this is, of course, the unconditional love that they share.

As humans, sometimes we forget that race and gender and sexual orientation, religion or financial status just DON'T matter, but, boy does this story from a metro/uk online news source remind us just how silly we can be.

IT'S DOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

Friday, January 1, 2010

Pitbulls and Parolees

If you like animals and you like the ideas of being of service, getting second chances and seeing hard working people make a difference in the world, then you can see it all on Animal Planet's
Pitt Bulls and Parolees.

Click Here to watch while Tia and her parolees (and her four children) rescue, train and give unconditional love to lost and injured pitt bulls. And, of course, you will watch as everyone grows and changes in the process.

The Story Behind the Stories

Blythe went to visit her family in New Orleans, LA and got to talking with her wise, wise mother. Her mom was telling her about so many wonderful stories she heard on the news, about positive things, like people helping the homeless, prisoners training dogs to serve the disabled, teachers using their own money to buy food for their students to have to eat on the weekends...and so on..and, yet, every time Blythe looked at the news, all she saw were flashes of Tiger Woods and the many women he has slept with other than his wife. Or anytime she talked to a friend at home, she would hear about the cab drivers being murdered in the city or the increased crime rate in New Orleans.
Blythe felt inspired and started to think about her life as a social worker in Chicago and how every day of her life she sees people doing amazing things to change the world and how they don't get any notoriety for it at all. She thought about how negative the stories she hears from her friends and colleagues are sometimes and how hearing only a few positive stories from her mom lifted her spirit and made her want to be more of service in her day-to-day life.
When Blythe got home from her trip, she talked to Yvonne and shared all of her thoughts about her idea that if she had been so affected by the negative and so inspired by the positive, what a different state-of-mind all people would be in if even ONE news station or publication would just run 80-100% positive news. If they tuned into something positive, even just five minutes a day. She thought about how this could change the perspective of most people from negative to positive if one person would make the decision that sweet, not smut sells.
Yvonne, the thinker in our operation, had an idea.
"Why don't we start a newsletter of all positive news, then?"
And, five minutes later, after yummy vegan pot pie and logging onto blogger, we've decided that, instead of waiting around for someone else to do it, we would do it ourselves.
So, please TELL YOUR FRIENDS, TELL YOUR COLLEAGUES, TELL YOUR NEIGHBOR WHO NEEDS A PICK-ME-UP to come read some positive, inspiring, and, most importantly, TRUE news about people around the world and in our lives embracing the lightness of their humanity...one...story...at...a....time.....Oh, and PLEASE SHARE YOUR NEWS WE CAN USE to make a difference in the world too.

Blythe and Yvonne live with Sammy the Shih Tzu in Chicago, Illinois.

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