Minor League Ball Player’s First Home Run is Caught by Dad I love little stories like this. Father and son had a lucky day that they’ll remember forever.

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A plane you can drive (10min). I emailed this to a pilot friend of mine. I can see him owning one. Moreover, I know of an opera singer—also a pilot—who would fly to gigs. This would be great for her.

Starting today, if I don’t like the original story’s headline, I’ll create my own. The originals are often too verbose.

Soldotna, Alaska Houses 900 Evacuees During Fire The Red Cross built a temporary shelter, but no one needed to use it.

Minor League Mascot Gives Major League Surprise A deaf baseball fan loves the Dayton Dragons’ mascot, and everyone’s thrilled when the mascot starts speaking in American Sign Language. Watch the second video, without the news story.

Swimwear Company Re-Creates Sports Illustrated's Cover With Plus Size Models The good news, here, is that more “regular” women get told that they, too, are sexy.

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Sally Kohn: Let’s try emotional correctness (6min) A valuable talk about being “politically right, but emotionally wrong.” From Ms. Kohn, a liberal lesbian pundit on Fox news (you read that right): “Are you being friendly? Are you just being naive? Or do you really want to hurt me personally? Emotional correctness is the tone, the feeling, how we say what we say, the respect and compassion we show one another. And what I've realized is that political persuasion doesn't begin with ideas or facts or data.Political persuasion begins with being emotionally correct.”

While there are good things happening in the world, I haven’t been finding news articles that I felt I wanted to post. But I’ll keep looking!

Daily TED Talk (17min) Neil Pasricha has a blog called 1000 Awesome Things, which he started after some tough personal years. One of his three “As of awesome” is authenticity, and he does come across as authentic and sincere. My favorite quote: “There are so many things to be happy about.”