Well, some stuff happened yesterday.
While I was watching the chaos in Washington and getting more and more depressed all day, I couldn’t imagine what I could write for today’s Good News.
Then I remembered,
WE TOOK THE SENATE!!!
Hello Senator Warnock and Senator-elect Ossoff!
Goodbye Senate obstructionist McConnell!
When things got bad, I almost totally forgot the truly wonderful thing that happened early in the day. So, I put aside the bad stuff of the rest of the day and went to Twitter and just grazed. Here is what I found. Please add your own.
Loni Love speaks for me
This one cracked me up
There was another little thing that happened yesterday. But there is hope there, too.
And finally
Also, did everyone notice that The Squad added two members?
update: from the comments, I should have posted the picture.
Here is our new expanded Squad!
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GOOD NEWS ABOUT GOOD NEIGHBORS
Here is a story about an organic farmer whose restaurant customer base suddenly dried up thanks to Covid. With eight greenhouses full of produce ready to be harvested, what to do?
They decided to open a farm stand to sell off at least a small portion of their surplus produce. They put vegetables in plastic bags priced at $3, and put out the word to people who had subscribed to the newsletter for the farm’s C.S.A., or community supported agriculture.
It was so astonishing that you couldn’t process it. It really did feel like people were just coming in and throwing money at you. There were people who came in and were just like, yeah, here, keep the change. I’m going to take a $3 bag and I’m giving you a $10 bill, keep the change.
There were a gazillion people.
She compared it to the 1946 film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” in which a small-town community rallies around a struggling banker, chipping in enough money to help him pay off a loan.
They will start 2021 with a fully stocked farm store, selling their own crops, as well as meat, milk and cheese from other local farms.
GOOD NEWS ABOUT ANIMALS AND TRAFFIC
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