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Acts of Kindness Captured on Russian Dash Cams (Video)

May 5, 2013 By Deanna Ogle Leave a Comment

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These good people will give you hope.

Filed Under: Bits & Pieces Tagged With: acts of kindness, consideration, courtesy, dash cams, dashboard cameras, Faith, good acts, goodness, hope, humanity, people, random acts of kindness, Russia, russian, Sex and Relationships

Looking for a Way to Do a Random Act of Kindness? Send a Postcard! (PHOTO)

April 18, 2013 By Deanna Ogle Leave a Comment

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Postcards From Farr Away sends postcards filled with inspiration, hope, and love to random people.

Filed Under: Bits & Pieces Tagged With: acts of kindness, hope, inspiration, organization, people, PFFA, postcard, postcards, Postcards From Farr Away, random, random acts, send, Sex and Relationships, snail mail, uplifting, writing

Overwhelming Turnout for Vigil for Boy Killed in Bombing (PHOTO)

April 16, 2013 By Deanna Ogle Leave a Comment

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A photo from Liam Day’s Twitter shows the incredible turnout for the vigil.

Filed Under: Bits & Pieces Tagged With: bombing, bombs, Boston, Boston Marathon, Boston Marathon Bombing, gathering, grief, hope, mourning, people, photo, Sex and Relationships, turnout, Twitter, vigil

Comedian Patton Oswalt’s Facebook Post on Boston Bombing Has Gone Viral

April 15, 2013 By Mark Greene 2 Comments

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At 188,000 likes on Facebook and counting, Oswalt’s message is about hope.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog, MegaSAHD Tagged With: bombing, Boston, facebook, hope, message, Patton Oswalt, terrorism

This Teen Walked 10 Miles in the Snow for a Job Interview and Got One Before He Arrived (Video)

March 6, 2013 By Deanna Ogle 2 Comments

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Need some hope? This is what happens when determination meets a good heart.

Filed Under: Bits & Pieces Tagged With: afford, bus, Cajun, Cajun restaurant, determination, feel good story, hope, ice, job, kids, kindness, men, minimum wage, money, papa roux, parents, pick-me-up, snow, Teens, UpWorthy, walking, Work, working, young men

About My Sentence

February 24, 2013 By Spoon Jackson 1 Comment

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Spoon Jackson, who has served 34 years of a life sentence in prison, faces the reality of his fate.

Filed Under: Poet Behind Bars, Prison, The Good Life Tagged With: artists, breaking up, California State Prison, Freedom, grace, hope, identity, institutional racism, loneliness, men in prison, parole, penitentiary, prison life, Prisoners, reality, relationships, solitude

Why Bring Children Into Such A World? On Hope, Love, and Parenting.

January 20, 2013 By James Austin 6 Comments

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What motivates someone to bring kids into a “horrible and hopeless world?” Seattle Dad is glad you asked.

Filed Under: Families Tagged With: dads, Families, hope, parenting, Robert Duffer, Seattle Dad

Tiny Hand-cuffs: Poems by Dennis J. Bernstein

November 14, 2012 By Dennis J. Bernstein Leave a Comment

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Dennis J. Bernstein has been a longtime front line reporter specializing in Human Rights. His poetry has appeared in the New York Quarterly, Chimaera, Bat City Review, elsewhere.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Poetry Edited by Greg Sherl Tagged With: A granddaughter speaks, Day-dreaming until the cows come home, Dennis J. Bernstein, Eleanor Bumpers, Esperanza's Story, God's Hand, Gregory Sherl, hope, poetry

“Thanks for the article. Needed a little courage and tact before I called up my girlfriend.”

October 30, 2012 By the Editors 2 Comments

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Justin Timothy, k-dawg, and br talk about breakups.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: boyfriends, break up, breakups, calling, communication, discussions, Dude, emotion, emotional health, feelings, girlfriends, guys, hope, men, partners, phone, relationships, text, text message, western culture

Depression—My Story

October 23, 2012 By Andrew Lawes 1 Comment

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Depression can be a fatal illness. Andrew Lawes has survived it, but it was a near thing for a while.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content, On Depression Tagged With: Andrew Lawes, clinical depression, depression, hope, inspiration, medication, self-harm, suicide

The Reason We Stopped Eating Rice Is Love (and Poison)

October 8, 2012 By Matthew Salesses 2 Comments

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In this installment of “Love, Recorded,” the rice is filled with arsenic and Matt cries in front of his baby, prompting him to answer why it is he writes.

Filed Under: Featured Content, new dads, Sex & Relationships Tagged With: Arsenic, Babies, crying, empathy, fatherhood, hope, love recorded, Matt Salesses, parenting, poison, rice, Sex and Relationships, Storytelling, writing

Strange Fruit

September 5, 2012 By Jackie Summers 11 Comments

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Jackie Summers asks us to ignore, for a moment, the fact that threatening the life of a president is treason.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Featured Content Tagged With: Assassination, censorship, conscience, Emmitt Till, facebook, FBI, Freedom, funeral, hate crime, hate groups, hate porn, hope, images, justice, KKK, liberty, lynching, murder, POTUS, President Obama, racially motivated, Racism, threats to POTUS, threats to president

“My most intimate encounters with the ‘logic’ of suicide have come from my own internal battles.”

August 19, 2012 By the Editors 1 Comment

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This is a comment by Seth Mullins on the post “Stepping Off”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: consciousness, death, feeling, friends, heart, held out, hold on, hope, life, man, meaninglessness, men, mental, people, saved from killing yourself, soul, suicidal, suicide, voice

“Without brave men like you speaking up and shining a light, I may not have gotten out of the darkness.”

August 15, 2012 By the Editors Leave a Comment

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This is a comment by 24KAuGuy on the post “When to Tell”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: Bravery, candle, Community, courage, darkness, hope, Light, man, men, sharing, sharing experiences, shining a light, speak up, speaking out, stories, thanks, transformation, writing

Cancer: 8/18

August 2, 2012 By The Good Life @ GMP 2 Comments

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Survivors wanted: men’s stories of cancer.

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, Cancer, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: Call for submissions, cancer and men, cancer diagnosis, cancer survivors, colorectal cancer, death, denial, grief, hope, Hospice, hospital, illness, liver cancer, lung cancer, male caregivers, medical, men's bodies, Men's Health, nurses, oncology, pain, Prostate Cancer, surgery, The Good Life

Becoming Who You Want to Be (When You Grow Up)

July 22, 2012 By Lodro Rinzler 2 Comments

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Who do you want to be when you grow up?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Quarter-Life Crisis, The Good Life Tagged With: aging, ambition, apathy, Buddhism, career, change, college, core values, economy, fame, Generation Y, Generosity, genuine, grad school, hope, humility, identity, internship, kindness, mandala, middle class, money, President Obama, profession, quarter-life crisis, reality television, Recession, society, success, The Good Life, unemployment, values, Video Games, Work

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My Daughter Was Arrested, Expelled and Charged With a Felony for a Same-Sex Relationship She Had as a Minor

The nightmare began in February when the cops came to arrest my daughter, who had just turned 18, and took her away without telling us what was happening.

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Zach Sobiech May Have Died, But His Music and His Love Live On

Justin Baldoni: “It’s not because you’re dying. It’s because of the way you’re living.”

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Gun Rights Group Files Lawsuit Against Officials in Connectucut

The Office of the Connecticut Attorney General asserts that the new legislation is legal and the office is “prepared to vigorously defend the law against any court challenge.”

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Walmart Security Accuses Father of Kidnapping His Own Biracial Children

A Virginia man was accused of kidnapping his own children last week because, according to Walmart security, a white man with biracial children just didn’t “match up.”

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Boy Scouts Vote on Lifting Ban on Gay Members

A controversial debate within the Boy Scouts of America is coming to a head this week as 1,400 of its leaders vote on lifting the ban that doesn’t allow homosexuals or atheists into its ranks.