Day 4142: Hero and Positives..

 

  

"Targets": collage, inks, digital.

 

  

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Click here: FKJ & Tom Misch, Losing My Way

 

 

2GN2S

 

One choice changed his life — and saved another's. 

If you could do it over again, would you make the same choice?

“One and a thousand times more."

 

Those are words of true kindness. Those are the words Manuel Cordova said when reflecting on the heroic decision he made 16 years ago in the wilderness of southern Arizona. After crossing illegally into the US in search of a job that would pay him more than $100 a week, Cordova came across 9-year-old Chris Buchleitner, stranded and helpless on a mountain road after his mother's car crashed into a ravine with her trapped inside. Instead of fleeing to stay undiscovered, Cordova stayed with the boy for hours, building a fire and beckoning for help. While it likely saved the boy's life and earned him widespread admiration, the deed also had serious consequences. Cordova was deported and never tried to cross into the US again.

 

If there's one thing you do this weekend, I encourage you to read the full story of these two wildly different people whose meeting changed their lives in wildly different ways. It's a moving reminder that, in the face of imperfection, injustice and grief, acts of kindness are more complicated than they seem. The right choice may hurt. It may go unrewarded. Imagine having the strength to say you'd still do it again, one and a thousand times more. 

Read the whole story here. 

Negative/Positive

The news is supposed to tell us what's happening in the world. It doesn't. It tells us what's going wrong. Thanks to a combination of commercial pressures, cognitive biases and cultural habits, news organisations have become modern-day doom machines, showcasing the worst of humanity, without highlighting any progress, healing or restoration. Yes, journalism is supposed to hold truth to power and when terrible things happen we shouldn't turn away. But when we only hear stories of doom, we fail to see the stories of possibility. We deny ourselves the opportunity to do better.

but genuine, world changing stuff about how millions of lives are improving, about human rights victories, diseases being eliminated, falling emissions, how vast swathes of our planet are being protected and how entire species have been saved. We don't hear about this.

Did you know:

1. A record number of countries eliminated diseases this year

2. Progress in the fight against cancer

3. Malaria vaccines started arriving in Africa

4. New therapies reshaped how obesity is treated

5. Some bright spots for maternal and child health

6. We're winning the war on AIDS

7. Uncelebrated progress on smoking

8. Childhood vaccinations got back on track

9. Polio and Guinea Worm are so close to eradication

10. A recovery in the fight against tuberculosis

 

I only listed 10, but here are 66 listed positives, if you're interested, click here.

 

 

 

  

 

A  minute video, , here.

 

 

  

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