Feel Good Friday

“Doctors believed that Woody Brown would never be able to speak or process language. He went to graduate school and is publishing his debut novel.” ‘I Thought I Would Be Caged My Whole Life.’

+ “Rounding a little-used pier with a hulking century-old building, he found an open garage door and peered inside. The building was cavernous, seemingly in good shape, and entirely empty. That’s all it took for Eggers, the Pulitzer finalist and conjurer of offbeat endeavors, to spin his way into another.” A Free Home for San Francisco Artists. (And another great program from the excellent, and indefatigable, Dave Eggers.)

+ NASA’s Artemis II has left Earth’s orbit, and 4 astronauts now head to the moon. (And they got a pretty nice shot of us.)

+ The economy added more jobs than expected in March.

+ Molly the border collie rescued after a week waiting for injured owner in New Zealand’s remote backcountry.

+ There’s a New Place to Store Greenhouse Gases: In Your Beer. (It’s gonna have to be a pretty large beer.)

+ Unsuspecting windsurfer collides with gray whale in San Francisco Bay. (Both escaped without injury…though this is not being covered as feel good news in the whale press.)