Tell me something good

hedonist
hedonist Posts: 24,524
edited April 2012 in A Moving Train
Antidote (or not?) to the shit here, there, and everywhere.

Topic's wide open; share yours, if you want.

This story's a few months old but has stuck with me since I first read of this little spitfire.

Sweetness!

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44617504/ ... arns-walk/

(for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to post his photo. However, once you see him, guaranteed you'll agree that is the face of true happiness)
Post edited by Unknown User on
«13

Comments

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Sweet! Yes, animals are an antidote to the shit in the world.

    Out store cat missed a few days meals (long story but suffice it to say I was off those days). When I got to work today and found her without food I rushed off to the store, stocked up, came back, opened a can and gave her a BIG meal which she practically inhaled. Afterwards, I crouched down and she literally ran up me like I was a ladder onto my shoulder and shoved her nose in my ear and purred like a little motor boat. Love, love, love!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    im awesome. ;):lol:


    .... and i will always give the benefit of the doubt until its proven you dont deserve it. 8-)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    edited March 2012
    this is good for our children

    http://elizabethsmartfoundation.org/get ... s-america/

    Elizabeth Smart is here bringing awareness and help after Jorelys,
    a 7 year old local girl, was raped and murdered in her apartment complex
    after school just before Christmas.

    Out of Elizabeth's tragedy good will come.
    Post edited by pandora on
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    catefrances wrote:
    im awesome. ;):lol:


    .... and i will always give the benefit of the doubt until its proven you dont deserve it. 8-)
    and I thought awesome was giving everyone the benefit of the doubt
    even to those who don't deserve it :? and most especially those we don't agree with.
  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    and worth every cent ! :lol:
    http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... p=features

    Godfather.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    hedonist wrote:
    Antidote (or not?) to the shit here, there, and everywhere.

    Topic's wide open; share yours, if you want.

    This story's a few months old but has stuck with me since I first read of this little spitfire.

    Sweetness!

    http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44617504/ ... arns-walk/

    (for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to post his photo. However, once you see him, guaranteed you'll agree that is the face of true happiness)

    He's smiling!! How great is this story? SO sweet.

    Personal story: my in-laws went to Vegas for vacation in January for a few weeks. A few days before flying home, my FIL got very sick with diverticulitis and went to the hospital, had surgery, was sent back to his hotel. Never feeling better and plagued with constant nausea, he was transported back to the hospital and had emergency surgery for another infection. After a week he was sent back to his hotel. He got sick again, helicoptered to a different hospital with a blood clot in his chest and the prognosis looked very bad. Arrangements were being made for family to fly out to be with my MIL. But incredibly things turned around being at a different hospital. After 10 days he was just released and will be flying home tomorrow. Talk about a whirlwind of emotions. We're amazed that he will be coming home and feels better!!
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Animals just have this way of putting things in perspective. They're so pure...and simple and mysterious. I've been sick for the last few days, and even feeling like shit, I felt better just hanging out with Beans and George, playing with them and observing their silly ways.

    brian, good on you for looking after that cat! More folks like you are needed.

    cate, made me 8-) good on you too!

    And Elizabeth Smart...I can't imagine emerging from her horror with such grace. Same for Jaycee Dugard. Not comparable to my initial post, but still...something positive coming from tragedy.

    Godfaddah, amusing, no doubt! Though I splurge from time to time, I try to be frugal as a rule. Not sure if I had that kind of income I'd spend like her, but...it's hers to do with as she wishes; she's earned it.

    Jeanwah, how frightening that must've been for your FIL and family. Ten days! I'm happy for him.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    ss-110921-hydro-puppy-12.photoblog600.jpg

    On days not so good nothing picks one up like the happiness of a puppy.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Great stories/posts, all. Love to hear more good things!

    Here's a little something good- we're getting a lot of much needed rain this week!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    ss-110921-hydro-puppy-02.photoblog600.jpg

    :D SMILE away puppy it will make others smile tooo.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Thank you for posting those, g! Smiling here with tears in my eyes at that big PUPPY SMILE.

    brian, yes - we're gonna get it too. Looking forward to staying in this cold, rainy weekend!
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... -back.html
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Love it. Go, Mr. Gibbs!
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2114840/How-Mr-Gibbs-dog-keeps-keeps-Alida-Knobloch-3-alive-strapping-oxygen-tank-back.html

    That's awesome. :D
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Godfather. wrote:
    and worth every cent ! :lol:
    http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... p=features

    Godfather.


    Oh yeahhhh :D
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    From Six Feet Under.

    One of my favorite scenes, even just in words, without the facial, verbal and physical nuances.

    This makes me happy in its beauty and in how it just makes sense. Because as fucked up, confusing, hypocritical, wondrous, everything this life is, it really is - CAN - be that simple.


    Nate Sr: You hang on to your pain like it means something. Like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you - it's not worth shit. Let it go! Infinite possibilities, and all he can do is whine.

    David: Well, what am I supposed to do?

    Nate Sr: What do you think? You can do ANYTHING you lucky bastard - you're alive! What's a little pain compared to that?

    David: It can't be that simple.

    Nate Sr: What if it is?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2114840/How-Mr-Gibbs-dog-keeps-keeps-Alida-Knobloch-3-alive-strapping-oxygen-tank-back.html

    Awesome! :clap: :thumbup:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • ONCE DEVIDED
    ONCE DEVIDED Posts: 1,131
    With the amount of crap passed arouond here
    I hark back to times when each of us have asked for support and gotten it.
    I look to the love and support I have gotten over the years from you guys n gals
    Perfect strangers with a united passion for this bands music.
    Sure we argue
    But there is also much support as well
    AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
  • even flow - question mark
    even flow - question mark Posts: 1,568
    Raise, train and love an animal and you'll have constant love forever. Same can be said for humanity.

    The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08

  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    hedonist wrote:
    From Six Feet Under.

    One of my favorite scenes, even just in words, without the facial, verbal and physical nuances.

    This makes me happy in its beauty and in how it just makes sense. Because as fucked up, confusing, hypocritical, wondrous, everything this life is, it really is - CAN - be that simple.


    Nate Sr: You hang on to your pain like it means something. Like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you - it's not worth shit. Let it go! Infinite possibilities, and all he can do is whine.

    David: Well, what am I supposed to do?

    Nate Sr: What do you think? You can do ANYTHING you lucky bastard - you're alive! What's a little pain compared to that?

    David: It can't be that simple.

    Nate Sr: What if it is?

    God, I loved that show. Just recently HBO played the show in its entirety, and of course I soaked up every minute and cried at the finale. I don't think any show ever is as good as Six Feet Under.

    I thought this was worthy of posting: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-cultu ... aires-list

    J.K. Rowling's charity giving knocks her off Forbes' billionaires list

    To think that being a billionaire just isn't that important and that giving the money away is much more. Warms the heart. :D

Categories