Feel Good Friday

“Robert and Trude mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life for their disabled son. But when Mats died, they discovered that people all over Europe lit candles in his memory.” BBC: My disabled son’s amazing gaming life in the World of Warcraft.

+ When a Newton family welcomed a baby who is deaf, 20 neighbors learned sign language.

+ Father organizes heavy metal festival for his music-loving son Mason, who has cerebral palsy.

+ Inside 37-year-old pitcher Luke Hagerty’s improbable comeback story.

+ Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler opens home for abused women in TN.

+ Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants, will rely primarily on renewable energy