Good Things Thursday - 05.25.23
Another round of good news
Another Thursday, another round of good stories to warm your heart much better than the dumpster fire we’re still living in. Enjoy!
Support for Drag | Postable | Pueblo Foster Parents | Korean Trip | Happy Pics
Supporters of drag story hour in Cleveland outnumber protesters, uplift families attending
Inside Near West Theatre in Cleveland’s Gordon Square Arts District Saturday morning, people attended a drag story hour, which the theater regularly hosts.
But outside of the theater, several dozen people sang and danced carrying rainbow umbrellas to shield people walking in out of the theater from a small group of people across the street protesting the drag storytelling event.
Read more here.
Postable
This is the service I use a lot to send cards to my friends and family. Not only do they have a big selection of pre-made cards, you can upload your own designs, which is what I usually do.
You can get a $5 credit after your first $20 by using my referral code: MR8LVJJM9B
Check them out here.
These Pueblo foster parents have helped raise more than 130 children in the past 34 years
After their three children had all left home in 1989, Pueblo couple Cora and Stan Krol found themselves wondering what to do next.
"I told my husband, 'It's too quiet,' and I said, 'I wonder about foster care,'" Cora recalled.
"He said, 'Why don't you find a place to work with and see if you actually like it first?' Well, lo and behold, the next day there's an ad in the Pueblo newspaper for help in a group home with adolescents. I called a number, filled out an application, and she hired me. And I saw so many neat kids, I thought, 'I can do this.'"
Read more here.
American couple who sheltered Korean tourists in blizzard visit Korea
On Dec. 23 last year, a group of South Korean tourists became stranded in Buffalo, New York, during a heavy blizzard on their way to Niagara Falls. Their van got stuck in the snow, so two of them knocked on the door of a nearby house to ask for shovels to dig the vehicle out of a ditch.
That was the home of Alexander Campagna and his wife Andrea, who had planned for a quiet Christmas weekend indoors, with a stocked fridge to wait out the snowstorm. The couple invited the nine travelers plus the driver in as house guests, and they stayed for two nights and three days sharing stories, cooking Korean food and watching American football.
Read more here.
Read the original story here.
Happy Pics
Enjoy!
