Just thought you could use a little extra sunshine today :) ☀️
8 positive things that made my heart happy
I don’t love scrolling on TikTok, but when I see videos that make me cry happy tears I do. I saw one the other day and then another and then another and another and I decided that the stories deserved to be shared and heard.
So here are 8 positive things I learned recently that felt like sunshine and made my heart happy :) 🫶🏻☀️ **I encourage you to click on the links to read the full stories!!
There is a dog adoption center in Poland that houses shelter dogs in their very own tiny colorful cottages. Not only is it adorable, but it helps the dogs get used to a home environment in a cottage complete with air conditioning inside and a their own backyard outside.
What love is according to an 8 year old 🥹
Millions of trees grow every year, thanks to forgetful squirrels that can’t remember where they bury their nuts.
Cows have best friends. Research shows cows are more calm, smarter, and have a lower heart rate when with their best buddy.
There’s a village in the Netherlands that is designed specifically to help people with dementia. The Hogeweyk Dementia Village is a place where residents can live seemingly normal lives, but are actually being watched by caregivers at all times to make sure they are safe.
A stray dog followed a runner for 77 miles of an ultra marathon. After running 25 miles together the ultra runner, Dion Leonard, named the dog Gobi and shared his food and water with her. He saw a lot of himself in her and couldn’t just leave Gobi behind so he went to great lengths to bring her home safe. There’s a book about their story called Finding Gobi.
After a decade of a swan trying to become a mother, a man takes it upon himself to make sure she finally got to have a family of her own. Rob Adamson aka “the Swan Man” has rescued and built relationships with many swans in the area. He built a floating raft and carefully transferred the nest when he noticed the eggs were close to the waters edge and would likely not make it. The eggs survived and the swans were finally able to have a happy ending and a family of their own.
A bald eagle that tries to hatch a rock becomes a stepdad. In March 2023, Murphy, a bald eagle from the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri, began spending his entire day sitting on a makeshift nest. He started to become increasingly protective of his “offspring”(rock) and was moved to a seperate enclosure to avoid any confrontation between him and other bald eagles. During that same time, they brought an eaglet into the sanctuary after it was found stranded after a windstorm. Since Murphy was showing paternal instincts, they slowly introduced the two and he embraced fatherhood taking the eaglet in as his own. Murphy did such a great job first time around, he become a two time dad.
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I definitely needed this dose of sunshine today 🥹🌻 Thank you Leanna!
I didn't even know I needed this positivity, until I was reading it! Absolutely lovely. That dog shelter warms my heart, and even though I live in the Netherlands I had never heard of the dementia centre! It sounds like such a warm place. <3!