I set a goal to road-trip across the country, running a marathon in all 50 states (I’d later up it to 100 marathons), volunteering at each of the 200 Feeding America food banks, and visiting friends and family as I went.
I set out in July 2014. I ran my 100th marathon last month and volunteered at my 200th food bank on April 11. Am I done? Not even close. Not while there are millions of hungry Americans. Not when there is more that I — that we all — can do.
Air pockets frozen under water 😍😍😍 pic.twitter.com/yZlxIJPBqr
— 💙 Koko ✊✊🏽✊🏾💙 (@Kokomothegreat) March 23, 2019
Armand Foisy did not expect a video of his 101-year-old mother playing in the season’s first snowfall to go viral. But it did, reaching 7.7 million views on his Facebook page in two weeks.
“It was just a simple little video that was meant for family and friends,” he said, describing the moment captured in the video as “great joy and fun.”
Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/101-year-old-woman-snow-1.3344065
Manhole covers don’t have to be ugly sewer lids. In Japan, they can be astoundingly intricate, colorful, museum-worthy feats of urban design.
Photographer S. Morita (Flickr name MRSY) has snapped over a thousand manhole covers around Japan over the years. In a country renowned for its attention to detail and rich artistic heritage, it’s pretty inspiring to take a bland city staple, that people literally walk all over, and morph it into eye candy.
Link: https://gizmodo.com/the-manhole-covers-in-japan-are-absolutely-beautiful-1716296346
At 12:30 on January 8th at the lovely New School Auditorium on 12th St., I’m doing a short introductory talk as part of my continuing Reasons To Be Cheerful project.
Link: https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/01/david-byrnes-reasons-cheerful/
Air Force veteran Ron Villemaire, 69, was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer this year. His dying wish was to see “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” and with the petition of his daughter, a community made it happen.
Link: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/12/20/veterans-wish-star-wars-last-jedi-orig-trnd-lab.cnn
We like to bring this chestnut back from time to time. Watch it, and you’ll know why.
In 1977, just a short month before Bing Crosby died of a heart attack, the 40s crooner hosted David Bowie, the glam rocker, on his Christmas show. The awkwardness of the meeting is palpable.