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Dante Positive: The Kindness Van

There are a couple of retired folks who are driving around in a van, giving out food and other things for free. They pay out of pocket, although they do get donations to keep on trucking…or vanning?

The link goes to a video. You will need to watch it.

One of the things the woman was talking about was how we are basically in a society where getting something with no strings attached is so unusual that there is “skepticism” in the whole thing. Isn’t that a shame? We don’t give enough. We don’t share enough. So, when someone does it, it’s very odd.

Is that where we want to live? It’s weird…uncomfotable…awkward…unbelievable…to show kindness. Sorry, that’s not the place for me. Let’s do something about it.

Dante Positive: Boy Gives His Hair to Cancer Survivors

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A touchingly adorable story.

Thomas Moore, a fifth-grader from Bowie, Maryland, didn’t cut his locks for two years just so he could donate them to cancer survivors. By Sept. 10, when he chopped it all off, he had grown enough hair to make three wigs.

The story is from Huffington Post. There are some photos of him with all of his hair. Take a look.

News: Teacher Buys Students Shoes With Money She Won

I end this lovely storm with a really nice story.

Bri Dredge, who won $20,000 on the game show Millionaire Hot Seat, used her winnings to buy her students at Yuille Park Community College in Ballarat new leather shoes, reported the New Zealand Herald.

Alright, I’m out. Be sure to read more on this.

News: Girl Lives WNBA Dream

I’m a big NBA fan. Love the WNBA too. So, once I saw this story, I jumped on it.

And make no mistake, Ariya Smith, all 4-foot-9 of her, is coming up hard.

Despite the onset two years ago of systemic Lupus, a life-threatening autoimmune disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues and organs, the kid from Thornton, Colorado, has continued to play the sport she fell in love with at age 5. And her dream remains the same:

To play professional basketball. To be like Maya Moore.

Yes, she got to hang out with Maya Moore, a very good WNBA player. One day, she did just that.

All Ariya did upon arriving at the Lynx practice facility on June 10 and giving her idol a hug was shoot like a pro, draining nine shots in a row as she worked her way around the lane. And that was before accepting the gift of Air Jordans from the team and changing into Minnesota Lynx workout gear.

There’s a lot more in the story with Ariya and even Maya’s background.

News: Construction Worker and Boy Stop Pit Bull Attack

A boy saw an elderly man getting attacked. He turned to a construction worker for help.

Marshall Schmitz, 9, turned to CS McCrossan Construction worker Derrick Johnson for help when he saw a pit bull attacking a man walking his dog in St. Louis Park on Monday.

“I saw a man walking a little dog, and then a pit bull I’d never seen before run after the man,’ Marshall recalled. “And the man was holding his little dog in his arms in the air, and then the man got knocked over.’

Johnson was able to fight off the dog, but not before the little dog died in the attack. Police arrived to settle the situation.

The officer also commended Marshall’s actions, saying the boy behaved “beyond his years’ by stopping what he was doing and running for help.

Cool.

 

News: Teacher Is Hero In Louisiana Movie Theater Shooting

Another movie theater shooting. Of course I had to find out if there was anything positive to take from that tragedy. I got something.

A school teacher heroically jumped in front of a colleague to shield her during a deadly shooting at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana Thursday night, and one of the teachers was able to pull the fire alarm to alert authorities despite being wounded, according to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.

“Her friend literally jumped over her, and in her account actually saved her life,” Jindal said at a press conference, after he visited with victims at a hospital. “If she hadn’t done that … that bullet, she believed it would have hit her in the head.”

Keep those people in prayer. Read the article for more info.