Feel Good Friday

“Being a parent is tiring, no doubt about it. Add balancing a career, a household, plus maybe being a single parent without support or a caregiver to ailing parents, and burnout is practically guaranteed. Before you know it, mothers and fathers find themselves at their doctor’s office with symptoms such as insomnia, panic attacks, depression or physical problems such as backache, arthritis or joint pain. But the prescription for what ails parents in Germany may not be for pills or creams. Those lucky parents may leave with doctor’s orders for a four-week spa break by the sea or in the mountains.” This country’s doctors can prescribe four-week spa breaks to frazzled parents. (How about if my kids get sent to the spa and I just get my couch and my remote control.)

+ Thousands of anti-racism protesters have rallied in cities and towns across England after a week of anti-immigrant rioting and disorder.

+ How Lahaina’s more than 150-year-old banyan tree is coming back to life after devastating fire.

+ Farmers honor ‘Peanuts’ creator Charles M. Schulz with corn mazes across US and in Canada.

+ The unsung hero of the Olympic-champion US women’s gymnastics team is a very good boy.

+ The endlessly fun (and oddly potent)… Tim Walz Fixed Your Bicycle.