This entry represents good news in itself. I see that I have broken through the barrier that stopped my previous blog at 5 entries. It also represents a shift in focus from my direct approach to a conversation for evolution to simply doing something that I find interesting and instructive to the overall conversation. "Good News" is an interest that has attracted my attention before but I've gone just a little further to follow it up this time.
The last time I looked on line I lacked anything that might be thought of as persistence. I remember being distracted by the amount of religious good news that seemed to dominate the Google results. Perhaps I could refine my search just a little. Nothing against those things but I'm looking for something that points more to the general goodness of humans at large, independent of their institutional affiliations.
Good News! The first item on the Google list www.happynews.com/ is a winner. My advanced search simply excluded sites that used the words church, god and Jesus. The Happy News folks are a wonderful example of what I'm looking for.
I noticed that one of their top stories when I visited just a little while ago is the story NBC Nightly News used as their good news piece this evening. They have excellent categories. I went to business and found a piece from Forbes about who’s happiest with their jobs. I was surprised and delighted to find that secretaries or administrative assistants are near the top of the list. I love discovering that ordinary people doing ordinary work are pleased with what they're doing. It's pretty much the only hope for our world at this point in history.
I would like to see a category something like “humans relating to others.” Others being any other, e.g., the planet as a whole or animals as well as other humans.
And more good news for me is that I’ve just begun to follow the first item on the first advanced search. This project could keep me going for some time.
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