This has me in tears🥺

Oh wow! That’s beautiful! 

I SAID SHE LIKED TO *CROCHET*. Snatches knitted item

Ghosts out here knittin’

Extremely cute. Very cool.

This is so lovely and timely.

My dad passed away in May of this year. It sucks knowing that he’s not going to be sitting in his chair or at the kitchen table when I come home to visit.

The absolute worst time of his life was when he got into politics briefly about 25 years ago. Basically, our district Counselman was running for mayor and if he were to win, he was allowed to appoint a replacement. A mutual friend suggested my dad, and after some deliberation between my dad and some others, they chose my dad.

Long story short – politics sucks and people suck. We had threats made against us regularly for really petty things. Cops wouldn’t do anything because the threats weren’t overt enough and as a public figure, he was expected to face some headwinds.

One thing that he did was always side with the sewer department. Basically, he voted to dismiss the entire former crew because rather than doing regular testing of the water, the guys would just stay home and go to the treatment plant once every 2 weeks and toss in some chlorine and call it a day. The new guys were better, but the old guys were well liked and popular (they had lots of free time on their hands to make friends).

People constantly called for the new guys to be fired, pay cut…all that. My dad backed them and even made several motions to (successfully) give them raises because they were underpaid and kept the public safe as they did their jobs correctly.

They weren’t friends with my dad, they never hung out, but he went to bat for them regularly.

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One of these guys called my mom up last week. He told her that his son had a baby boy and they were completely unable to figure out a name for him before he was born. Finally, the guy called up his son and said “why don’t you name him [Dad’s name]?” and explained why, since he held him in high regard, and so – they named the kid after my dad.

I don’t lose my composure much, but it was very hard for me to crack out any sort of response when my mom told me last night what had happened. I think I paused for 5 seconds, and eked out a “that’s really nice.” He’d be humbled to know that one of the good things he did during the absolute worst years of our family’s life was recognized like this.

Faith in humanity renewed

This is the one Reddit post that has brought a smile to my face today. Thanks for that.

Reminds me of my odd experience as a museum director subbing for a bartender to a family that had rented the entire location for a celebration of life.

My family doesn’t grieve at all or really even discuss our family and I lost 90% of it over COVID. I had never seen a celebration of life before, let alone of an artist.

They gave everyone a few months after her passing to process – and create.

The entire floor space was covered in pieces made either by her or her students, what felt like miles of quilts and afghans, and everyone was so happy opposed to brutally sad.

Absolutely beautiful.

When my grandma died, she left a baby blanket nearly finished. Years later, my mom’s friend finished it for us and my mom was able to give it to her new grandchild.

‘Someone’ 😱

Shouldn’t this be in r/paranormal?

Most wholesome thing I have heard in years.

“Random Acts of Kindness and Sensless Acts of
Beauty ” – Anne Herbert

That is so cute!!!🌸😭🌼😭💐😭

This is when I wish ghosts were real and her ghost knitted it for you to wear while you visit in the winter. It

My dumb ass: “crotch-eh-ter? Wtf is that?”