Highway to Heal
After his wife Jalene passed away from triple negative breast cancer in 2016, Eric Livingstone found a way to help him deal with his grief by creating a "Highway 2 Heal."
Taking a bike ride across the country from Santa Monica to New York City, Eric hopes to find a way to bridge the emotional gap between him and his son Eliya during the journey. "I recognize right now that i don't have the tools or the skill sets to connect with him the way I want to connect with him that harbors this open dialogue this shared trusted space," Eric told E!.
Hoping to chat with many people on his 4,000-mile journey, including cancer survivors and grief experts, to help him cope with his loss. The cross-country ride will also raise funds and awareness for Camp Kasem, which is specifically designed for kids who have been impacted by a parent's cancer.
"I just i want to make a positive change and i want to do good and life put me here,"Eric explained. "There's five million kid out there like my son, which means there's five million surviving care givers out there and this is just cancer. What about all of the other horrible loses and situations that happen to families that are impacted with grief and depression and the economical hardship and so forth."
String Players Assemble
"Play for him, he's listening."
String players across New York came together at Washington Square Park in New York City to remember the life of Elijah McClain, "who played violin for shelter cats to calm them down because that's the kind of person he was."
The vigil called for all string players to "join in harmonization" and to bring a candle for a moment of silence for the unarmed Black 23-year-old Black who died after an arrest by Colorado police in August 2019.
Daisy's Rainbow Walk
Born with spina bifida, three-year-old Daisy Briggs raised over £20,000 pounds for the NHS (the National Health Service) with her final "rainbow walk," the last of her daily walks she would take while dressed in colorful outfits.
Daisy, who lives in London, also surprised friends and family by completing her last walk independently, with her mother Rea writing on Instagram, "We couldn't have dreamt when we started that Daisy would walk over the finishing line by herself and raise this amount!"
A Very Special "Good Morning"
After weeks of greetings, an 8-year-old girl named Tallulah surprised her delivery driver Tim when she signed "Good Morning! Have a good day!" Tim, who is deaf, had been teaching her the greetings over their interactions and his reaction to her morning hello was priceless, as seen in the video reposted by @goodnews_movement from Tallulah's mom, Amy Roberts.
"we see him 1 or 2 times a week, start of lockdown Tallulah drew him a #thankyou Rainbow, he still has it proudly on show in his van, they have built up quite a friendship over these last few weeks," Roberts wrote on Twitter.
Poop and Scoop
Next time you think about not cleaning up after your dog at all, think of this sweet and honest note a young boy left for his neighbor when he accidentally flung a poop bag on their car when he was aiming for the dumpster, which was first posted by goodnews_movement.
"I'm so sorry about what happened," the 9-year-old wrote on the note, which he left with a $5 bill. "It was an accident and never intended to do it on purpose. I'm sorry, once again."
Centennial Celebration
Leora Martin is celebrating her 100th birthday just one week after beating COVID-19 and her bout with the virus came after she had beaten cancer and survived pneumonia last year.
Martin was one of 76 residents to test positive for coronavirus at her Indiana assisted living facility, with Greenleaf Health Campus posting a video on their Facebook of Martin celebrating the milestone birthday on a Zoom call with her twin sister who lives in California and was visited by her daughter.
"It was sort of a relief," Martin told The Elkhart Truth of beating the virus. "You have to remember, I've been through cancer. I had to go to the hospital for five days with rods in my body—that was not comfortable, but I survived. They didn't think I would survive pneumonia last year either, but I did."