Sometimes you faced with the question, “do you want the good news, or the bad news first?” For most of us, just turning on the news requires a bit of courage, an open mind and even a sense of humor. For me, I used to be a news junkie until I literally couldn’t take it anymore. I was starting to notice that my morning moods were becoming deeply linked to whatever I was listening to in the car. In the evenings, I started to rush past CNN and all the pundits because, honestly, my life was stressful enough. This was about the time I stopped watching shows like ER and Law and Order. Why? Why fill my head which horrible, disturbing images and words. My mind is a crystal bowl, I concluded– not an ash tray.
That’s not to say that I don’t still follow world events and care about my government. I pay attention to the plight of families in areas of the world that I believe the U.S. has systematically impoverished. Many times, I really do want to know if I can do something positive to help change things. I am obsessed with the U.S. healthcare debate. But I also need balance. I need to know, more often than not, that good things are happening. Here is a list of publications and websites that give me that balance. Call it your “good news” digest. Don’t be fooled. It’s not just puppies and rainbows– it about social justice, bits of unexpected joy and a few heroic gestures.
Ode Magazine: The Online Community for Intelligent Optimists
Good News Now: Global stories that focus of good deeds and positive possibilities
Good News Gazette: News at the speed of nice
Positive News: A UK quarterly publication that “focuses on issues rarely covered by the mainstream media and promotes the many individuals and enterprises that are working to create a more healthy, humane and environmentally sustainable world.”
Happy News: They say, “we believe virtue, goodwill and heroism are hot news.”
Good News Network: “All the good news that’s fit to print.”
Do you know of any more?
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