Feel Good Friday

WaPo (Gift Article): Doctor running half marathon sees woman collapse, saves her, finishes race. “Emergency room doctor Shane Naidoo saw Chrystal Rinehold on the ground and helped her, then accompanied her to a hospital. After, he completed the race.”

+ “A teenager, then known as William Martin Joel, lived in the working-class suburb of Hicksville — his family so limited that they didn’t own a TV. He took a tiring minimum wage job dredging oysters. The dredge crisscrossed the waters of Long Island Sound, including a bay that curves like a comma and faces some of the most expensive real estate in the United States. From the boat, he could see a stately brick mansion. ‘Rich bastards,’ he thought to himself. ‘I’ll never live in a house like that.'” Billy Joel Is Selling the Mansion He First Saw While Dredging Oysters. Because you had to be a big shot, didn’t cha…

+ “We do a lot of searches for people in the water … So to get to have a success story like this is not as common as we’d like it. And we were all very, very excited. We couldn’t believe it, honestly, that he was OK.” ‘We were ecstatic:’ Coast Guard rescues a man clinging to a cooler in open water.

+ Teen breaks record by climbing Earth’s highest peaks.

+ Taylor Swift Donates $5M to Feeding America for Hurricane Relief.

+ Northern lights dazzle skies across the U.S. and world.

+ Grandad’s secret to 90-year friendship with childhood best friend. (I remain best friends with my childhood best friends and I’m pretty sure the secret to doing so is being pretty bad at making new friends.)