Remaining present in the modern world includes noticing the good. We're not talking toxic positivity here. We're referring to a simple commitment to also noticing what's good in the world even as you navigate what's not. Whether you find these reminders burrowed in a news story, the feeling of being on your mat or out on a run, or the eyes of a loved one doesn't matter. Noticing them does.
"We are going to tear apart HI. It's going to be the easiest thing to do." That's Brandon Sterri texting his brothers on January 29. According to the complaint, Brandon and his brother Brian were, at that moment, still drawing paychecks from Human Interest, still logging into their company-issued laptops every morning beneath reminders that access was "limited to authorized personnel," and that they'd agreed "to protect confidential data."
Hikers who climbed a Colorado mountain last weekend got more than just a sweeping view at the top. A man in an ice cream cone costume was handing out frozen treats. No one seemed to know the man who carried ice cream sandwiches and bars and dry ice in a 60-pound pack up Huron Peak on Aug. 31. But word of him spread quickly to hikers making their way up the 14,006-foot mountain.
A somber Homeland Security chief, Kristi Noem, recalled meeting family members of the youngest Texas flooding victims, including a devastated father who she said told her, My little girl died in there outside a ravaged Camp Mystic cabin.