Looking for uplifting news or happy stories in the newspaper has become like working on a five hundred piece puzzle and you can't quite find the piece you are holding to fit into the rest.  It can be quite a challenge, depending on what is occurring around the world. The feel good types of news stories are tougher to find in the midst of what the media has redefined over the years as newsworthy. A great example of this occurred to me this morning, when I found I was a little behind in reading a couple of newspapers. By the way, I still do read them the old fashioned way as I need to feel the paper in my hand as part of the experience.  After two days of being behind in reading, I jumped in and both of the front pages were filled with nothing but stories that were less than comforting.  The negativity ran the full spectrum from what types of things that you are eating that are bad for you, to tragic losses of life around the world.  I know that there are good things that happen daily and all around us, however, those articles are not as prominent as the rest of these stories that made the headlines and back pages too.  I then took to the internet to see how many stories I could find with the keyword search that included the words, "feel good news".  Luckily, in a matter of seconds I found a multitude of stories that spanned the diversity of the globe itself. I read about a Dunkin' Donuts Shop in Boston that stayed open all night serving the first responders and police for free, as they worked around the clock to capture the bad guys in their city.  A Czech bakery in Texas that fed and gave water to any injured or first responders for free, after a massive fire exploded three miles from its location.   Then a ninety four year old woman wrote about a random act of kindness where a woman paid for her groceries as she was trying to get the money out of her purse.  The woman who paid simply told the elderly person that she just wanted to do that for her.  Finally the best story I read, was about two men in a hospital room with one who could not get up at all and laid flat on his back, while the other would describe to him what he saw outside of their window for an hour each day.  Everyday the man by the window described in detail a beautiful park, a lake in it and a variety of activity, to his bed ridden room mate.  The man in the bed lived for each day that this occurred and one sad morning the man by the window passed away quietly.  When the bed ridden man asked to be moved next to the window, he strained and struggled to finally get a glimpse to look out of that magical window, only to find that it faced a brick wall.  When the man told the nurse what had occurred she advised him that the man who had passed away had been blind and his description of what he saw was probably his way of trying to  inspire him to get better.  I loved reading all of these and there were more.  What this experience reminded me of was that we need to be vigilant in looking for things that are good.  Whether it is people, experiences or a state of mind, good exists all around us, we just have to pay attention to where it is.