Feel Good Friday

“They cleared roads. They checked on each other and dug through the ash. But members of the Pasadena Run Club know the work that comes next is less visible. The backbreaking labor of recovery is one thing. The difficult process of healing is something else entirely.” After L.A. fires, a local run club helps pick up the pieces.

+ How a Los Angeles camp made space to let kids be kids after the wildfires.

+ “The nonprofit legal aid group Lambda Legal, which advocates for LGBTQ rights, has raised $285 million at a time when attacks on the rights of gay, intersex and transgender people have again intensified Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings announced the results on Thursday, saying the group exceeded its original fundraising goal by $105 million.”

+ “A cure for HIV could be a step closer after researchers found a new way to force the virus out of hiding inside human cells.” Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers overwhelmed. (And they’re in Australia, so the funding won’t get cut.)

+ WaPo: Bear cub rescued from woods is being raised by humans dressed as bears. (This makes me feel a lot less weird about my beagle costume.)

+ Colorado kayakers paddle to rescue a dog that tumbled over 60-foot waterfall in Mexico.

+ Feeling sorry for yourself? There’s now an actual solution. Scientists create world’s smallest violin.