Category: Kindness

World traveler creates instagram feed to let his mother know he is fine as he travels the world.
Family, Good News, Kindness, Parenting, Travel, Uplifting Stories

World Traveler Gets Creative To Let Mom Know He Is Fine

Any traveler knows it’s great to see the world, but someone is home wondering if you’re okay. Often that means your mom, no matter how old you are. No matter what country you come from. Johnathan Quinonez found that out after he quit his job as an accountant in Brussels, Belgium and took off for an extended adventure. He’s 27 years-old, but his mom was still worried, especially since his first stop was Cuba and phone and internet service there

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Ali Sonko, dishwasher at Noma, in The Netherlands has been named a partner in one of the best restaurants in the world.
Businesses Who Rock, Food, Good News, Great Giving, Kindness, Uplifting Stories

Dishwasher Is Made A Partner In One Of World’s Greatest Restaurants

It takes a lot of jobs to make a great restaurant work: chef, server, hostess, and yes, dishwasher. This is what they know at Noma, named one of the best restaurants in the world. Ali Sonko has worked at Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark, since it opened in 2003. He emigrated from the West African nation of Gambia. Noma has done so well that it is in the process of building a bigger restaurant. As the business makes the transition, Chef/Owner

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A kind stranger invites a lonely widower on a dream fishing vacation after he sees a classified ad looking for a new fishing mate.
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Kind Stranger Takes Lonely Widower On Dream Vacay After Ad For New Fishing Buddy

You don’t have to go fishing far to find a story that will melt your heart like this one. It starts with Ray Johnstone, a lonely widower in Australia who placed an ad for a new fishing buddy when his old friend passed away. Sky News reports that 22-year-old Mati Batsinilas saw that ad and his heart immediately felt for Mr. Johnstone. Fishing? He wanted a buddy to go fish with? Mati decided to up that idea to the next

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How a sweet boy and a truck reminded me the secret to love.
Daryn's Blog, Kindness, Life Lessons Took Me Long Time To Learn, Overcoming Obstacles, The Hard Stuff

How A Sweet Boy And A Truck Reminded Me The Secret To Love

A sweet boy from high school taught me something about love this week. Of course, he is no longer a boy. Now a man. A husband. A father. An incredibly happy one last July as he walked along Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France. Do you remember the evil that happened that night? As the French celebrated Bastille Day, their independence day? A crazed terrorist barreled a truck down that boulevard packed with people. His single mission was to destroy

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Cop drives man over 100 miles to get him to his family after pulling him over for speeding and finding out he has a family tragedy to deal with.
Heroes, Kindness

Cop Drives Man Over 100 Miles After Traffic Stop

This is so not the white cop pulls over African American man story we’ve been seeing the news lately. Mark Ross knew he was in trouble as soon as he saw the flashing lights in the rear view mirror. Actually, the trouble, the tragedy, started hours before. Ross was in Ohio when he got the devastating phone call. His teenaged sister had been killed in a car accident. Ross knew he had to get to his grieving mother as soon

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Judge Amber Wolf of Louisville, Kentucky makes an exception and allows an inmate to meet his baby son for the first time.
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Judge Allows Inmate To Meet Baby Son For First Time

An exception, a rare act of compassion for an inmate. A man who happens also to be a new father. This is nothing they teach you in law school. Or how to be a judge. Still, Louisville, Kentucky Judge Amber Wolf calls this “probably one of the best things I’ve ever done.” Judge Wolf pushed aside typical procedures and allowed inmate James Roeder to meet his one-month old son for the first time. WDRB.com reports that both Roeder and his

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Florida State wide receiver joins Bo Paske for lunch after he spots the boy eating by himself in a middle school cafeteria. For a boy with autism, the one act of kindness has changed his world.
Celebrities, Friendship, Kindness, Sports, Uplifting Stories

Beautiful Story Behind College Football Star And Boy With Autism Bonding Over Lunch

A college football star and a boy with autism bonding over lunch. It’s now the photo that has melted hearts around the world. It happened last month when Florida State football players paid a visit to Monford Middle School in Talahassee, Florida. Star wide receiver Travis Rudolph spied one kid, Bo Paske, eating lunch by himself. Travis says he thought nothing of making an offer of kindness. He simply went over to Bo to ask if he could eat lunch with

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US Olympic gold medalist Joe Jacobi has a new friend in Chloe Smith, the 6-year-old girl who found his stolen gold medall.
Friendship, Kids, Kindness, Sports, Uplifting Stories

Stolen Gold Medal Leads To Unlikely Friendship

The Olympic gold medal Joe Jacobi won at the Barcelona Olympics in kayaking has brought him a lot of joy since 1992. No wonder he was devastated when it was stolen from his car a few weeks ago. Little did Joe realize, that incident, that loss was about to bring him a wonderful gift and a friendship he never expected. Six-year-old Chloe Smith thinks the story is pretty special, too. Another fine story of friendship from CBS News’ Steve Hartman.

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Nurse Pam Medina is overwhelmed after unexpectedly winning custody of her baby granddaughter. A fellow nurse, Sara Putnam, did a huge round up of supplies to help her care for the baby.
Family, Great Giving, Kindness, Uplifting Stories

Co-Workers Surprise Nurse With Supplies When She Unexpectedly Wins Custody Of Infant Granddaughter

Sara Putman’s life is full of surprises these days, beginning with unexpectedly winning custody of her 7-month old granddaughter, Isabella. Inside Edition reports that a co-worker overheard Sara talking about how overwhelmed she was with all the supplies she was going to need. The court-ordered decision came as a surprise, and between Putman’s upcoming shift and the baby on the way, she didn’t have time to collect the items baby Isabella needed. Pam Medina saw Sara going through a donation bin

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