Good news for 10/10/20 - Inmate save correction officer's life

 

Good News for 10/09/20 - Earned Income Tax Credits make a positive difference in babies health.

 

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Good news for 10/08/20 - History of creation of National Park Service

 

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote a respect for the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part.

Good news for 10/07/20 - Teens are grateful

 

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth.

Thank some one today and share with them something about what they have meant to you. This contributes to a spiritual joining which engenders peace and joy.

Good news for 10/05/20 - Most people infected with Covid-19 recover

 

• Most people with COVID-19 recover. Estimates now suggest that 99% of people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 will recover. Some people have no symptoms at all. And while thousands of people have died, the overall death rate is about 1% (or perhaps even lower), far less than MERS (about 34%), SARS (about 11%), or Ebola (90%), though higher than the average seasonal flu (0.1%).The loss of life related to this illness is terrible and far more cases are expected, but based on the fatality rates alone, it could be far worse.

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Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all.

Good News for 10/02/20 - There are good people all across America and the world like bus driver, Marcia Woods Johnson.

 

Marcia Woods Johnson is a bus driver in Columbus, Ohio, She was quoted in a brief article in the August/September, 2020 issue of the AARP magazine as saying "But I'm just a firm believer that everybody's job is important. If other people can get up and go out and do their jobs, I should be able to get up and do mine."

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Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. Doing your job in the service of others is one significant manifestation of this principle.

Good News for 10/01/20 - USPS carriers do a lot more for their regular customers than just deliver mail.

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Who's your regular postal carrier? Do you know his/her name? Do you thank them for their service?

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations and the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth.

Good News for 09/30/20 - Bringing the sea back to life with good stewardship

 

The Italian Fishermen Who Brought the Sea Back to Life

When overfishing decimated Puglia’s biodiversity, conservationists and fishermen created a marine reserve that turned their catches around.

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Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of which we are a part.

Steven Levitt interviewed Steven Pinker the author of Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress on the podcast People I Mostly Admire published on 08/28/20.

Pinker is one of those people that Unitarian Universalists call "prophetic women and men." He makes the case for human progress based on data and knowledge not on ideology and fake news.

Pinker's book is well worth the read and it will restore your faith in humanity in these challenging times. If you don't want to read the book, listen to the podcast. Perhaps you would enjoy both.

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Join Steven Pinker and Steven Levitt in that search.

Good news for 09/18/20 - Food pantries and food resources in New York State

 

One of the greatest concerns of this pandemic is making sure all New Yorkers have access to food. No New Yorker should go to bed hungry. To find a food pantry that services your county, visit NYS food pantries. 

 

Good news for 09/17/20 - Moms of Portland are standing up for democracy

 

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote the right of conscience and the us of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.

Unitarian Universalists often live their faith in counter cultural ways creating what John Lewis called "good trouble."

Good news for 09/16/20 - Tattoo removal for a new life.

Loretta Kent, RN,  helps people remove unwanted tattoos from faces, necks, and other body parts keeping them from entering the workforce.

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations and in society at large.

Good news for 09/15/20 - Robert DuBoise exonerated after 37 years in prison

From the Innocence Project, 09/14/20

Last month, Robert DuBoise was released after spending nearly 37 years in prison for a crime he did not commit — and today, Robert was exonerated from all charges.

Robert DuBoise following his exoneration after 37 years on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, in Tampa, Florida. (Image: Casey Brooke Lawson/The Innocence Project)

He was arrested in October 1983 for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman in Tampa, Florida. He was convicted based solely on the pseudo-science of bite mark evidence and an unreliable jailhouse informant’s testimony, and he spent three years on death row.

Last month, Robert was released after new DNA testing of crime scene evidence that was thought to have been destroyed excluded him as the assailant and identified another individual. 

Editor's note:

The state of Florida still has an uses the death penalty which was applied to Mr. DuBoise who spent 3 years on death row. The people of the State of Florida could have executed an innocent man.

UU A Way Of Life ministries supports the Innocence project financially and encourages its readers to do likewise.

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. Supporting the Innocence Project is a very tangible, concrete way of applying this principle in our personal, social, and political lives.

Good news for 09/14/20 - Instead of a farmer's market, it is a recycler's market

Good news for 09/12/20 - Dental Therapy Dogs

 Dental therapy dogs in California. Check it out.

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth.

Good News for 09/11/20 - Get your free sunflower.

 Get your free sunflower at Thompson's Strawberry Farm in Bristol Wisconsin.

Good News for 09/09/20 - The moms of Portland, Oregon protest racism.

The moms of Portland Oregon stand up for justice and engage in anti-racist protest.

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations.

Good News for 09/08/20 - Bucks County Peace Center in Langhorne, PA

Check out the Bucks County Peace Center in Langhorne, PA. Supposing there were a peace center in every county in the United States? What could be a role for UUs to play in the creation of them?

UUs covenant together to affirm and promote the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all.

Good news for 09/07/20 - We've got toilet paper again

On Labor Day 09/07/20

A modern society cannot function without a social division of labor and a reliance on experts, professionals, and intellectuals. (For the moment, I will use these three words interchangeably.) No one is an expert on everything. No matter what our aspirations, we are bound by the reality of time and the undeniable limits of our talent. We prosper because we specialize, and because we develop both formal and informal mechanisms and practices that allow us to trust each other in those specializations.

Nichols, Tom. The Death of Expertise (p. 14). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.

This interdependence has become more visible as we visit our grocery stores and they are out of toilet paper, flour, Lysol disinfectant wipes.

The minimum wage workers are not stocking the shelves because the warehouse people and the drivers have not delivered the goods because the producers are not producing products because they can’t obtain the raw materials and we experience a WTF moment. We become humbly aware of all the people and their effort and energy to do their jobs which we have taken for granted.

The physician can wait, The attorney can wait. The accountant can wait. Where the hell is the toilet paper? The stocking clerk arrives at the toilet paper aisle with their pallet of packages of TP and we think we have died and gone to heaven.

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of which we are a part.

Good news for 09/05/20 - Virtual schooling better aligns with teens' biological clocks.

From Psychology today on 08/04/20

Virtual schooling provides a unique opportunity to align teens’ school schedules with their biological clocks. Especially if educators use asynchronous learning—where teachers record educational content for students to engage with on their own schedules—teenagers should be able to do their schoolwork at times of day that work best for them.

The take-home message: While virtual learning is certainly not ideal for many kids, it does offer the silver lining of flexible sleep schedules for older students.

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Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth.