Feel Good Friday

“The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases.” NYT (Gift Article): Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment.

+ “Talking to your loved ones about your problems can be uncomfortable. Talking to your therapist can be expensive. Paul Jenkinson, however, is neither. He’s just a man with some free time, two chairs, a folding table and a sandwich board that reads: ‘You are not alone. I will listen.'”

+ “This winter, a resort owner in the Sierra National Forest decided to keep the cabin doors unlocked should anyone need shelter to survive while the area was snowed in. Just in case.” Missing Sierra camper found alive in cabin after 3 weeks.

+ ‘Hero’ gamer thwarted a mass school shooting being planned in California town.

+ “Come and stay at my house. I’ll look after you and we’re going to get you into rehab.” The kindness of strangers: I was homeless and addicted to heroin. Joanne saved my life.

+ Apple to Support Brain-Implant Control of Its Devices. (Usually, the devices control our brains. It will be nice to see the tables turned.)