hope, beauty, and gratitude
Mar. 30th, 2022 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flamingswordPOSTPUNK, GOTH, SYNTH, EBM, LO-FI - Best New Bands: C & D Maybe new music doesn't count as a form of hope, but it is often beautiful.
According to the helpful website Charity Navigator Ocean Conservancy spent $6.9M last year cleaning up the oceans by taking trash out of water and off of beaches, and $9M lobbying for policies that would keep the oceans clean.
Global poverty is decreasing, slowly but steadily.
A study by the National Institutes of Health found that the COVID vaccine has already prevented 140K deaths in America alone.
In 2019, 386,000 Africans died from malaria, of which 274,000 were children under five, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). That's more children than adults who died of COVID in the same countries. As of 2021, there is now a safe, effective malaria vaccine.
There is now a flag for the peace movement inside Russia.
"The white-blue-white flag is a symbol of free Russia. This flag was coined by the online community opposed to the Russian army's invasion of Ukraine. The very next day after the first mention of it on Twitter, Russians abroad took to peaceful protests with a white-blue-white flag instead of the current Russian flag, stained with blood. This flag is the symbol of the peace movement.
The Jamaican Prime Minister told Prince William that the country will soon be seeking it's independence, and cutting ties with the monarchy. More power to them!
MyNoise.net has a new sound mix called Bamboo Garden, which is lovely to put on in the background.
Do you need some free guided meditations around self-compassion? Have a whole bunch of them!
Kids In Illinois Will Soon Be Able To Take 5 Mental Health Days Off From School, which sounds like a thing that kids have needed possibly since schools began, but better late than never.
People who did not need their stimulus check money donated $310,991 to charities such as Feeding America on the website PledgeMyCheck.org for great justice.
And that wraps up the good news that I put together over the last week!
According to the helpful website Charity Navigator Ocean Conservancy spent $6.9M last year cleaning up the oceans by taking trash out of water and off of beaches, and $9M lobbying for policies that would keep the oceans clean.
Global poverty is decreasing, slowly but steadily.
A study by the National Institutes of Health found that the COVID vaccine has already prevented 140K deaths in America alone.
In 2019, 386,000 Africans died from malaria, of which 274,000 were children under five, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). That's more children than adults who died of COVID in the same countries. As of 2021, there is now a safe, effective malaria vaccine.
There is now a flag for the peace movement inside Russia.
"The white-blue-white flag is a symbol of free Russia. This flag was coined by the online community opposed to the Russian army's invasion of Ukraine. The very next day after the first mention of it on Twitter, Russians abroad took to peaceful protests with a white-blue-white flag instead of the current Russian flag, stained with blood. This flag is the symbol of the peace movement.
The Jamaican Prime Minister told Prince William that the country will soon be seeking it's independence, and cutting ties with the monarchy. More power to them!
MyNoise.net has a new sound mix called Bamboo Garden, which is lovely to put on in the background.
Do you need some free guided meditations around self-compassion? Have a whole bunch of them!
Kids In Illinois Will Soon Be Able To Take 5 Mental Health Days Off From School, which sounds like a thing that kids have needed possibly since schools began, but better late than never.
People who did not need their stimulus check money donated $310,991 to charities such as Feeding America on the website PledgeMyCheck.org for great justice.
And that wraps up the good news that I put together over the last week!
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Date: 2022-04-02 05:12 pm (UTC)https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/202203/learn-better-make-mistakes
https://mobile.twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1509710388111167491
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-offers-1m-russian-soldiers-who-defect-top-grade-weapons-2022-4?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds&utm_source=reddit.com
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Date: 2022-04-12 03:25 am (UTC)The bamboo garden sounds are lovely.
Thank you!
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