Feel Good Friday

“A nine-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero for saving his parents’ lives when an Oklahoma tornado tossed the family’s truck into surrounding trees, after reportedly telling them ‘Mom, Dad, please don’t die, I will be back‘ before sprinting for help.”

+ “An eighth-grade student recently averted a tragedy when he brought a careening school bus carrying him and his fellow students to a stop after its driver fell ill from a medical emergency.”

+ “Twenty-four years ago, Gene Eyster, then with the South Bend, Ind., police department, received a call about a newborn baby found abandoned in a cardboard box. For more than two decades, Eyster wondered what became of that boy. A few weeks ago, he found out, perhaps when he needed to most.”

+ Biden expands health insurance access for DACA recipients.

+ Checkmate: 9-year-old chess prodigy breaks records, barriers in male-dominated game.

+ More than 1,000 sea lions have gathered at San Francisco’s Pier 39 this spring, the largest herd in at least 15 years. (Apparently, word of the doom loop hasn’t spread to the seas.)

+ Researchers make a plastic that includes bacteria that can digest it.

+ “For at least 700 years, monarchs have been given a ‘Coronation roll.’ Stretching for 69ft, the hand-stitched manuscript was written by calligrapher Stephanie von Werthern-Gill. And there are no nightmare spelling mistakes.” Although one i was left without a dot. (And if my experience is any indicator, about 200 people emailed her about the typo.) I’d never heard of a Coronation Roll. But I’m pretty sure my dispensary sells a coronation preroll.