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After a year of news stories that produced photos that can often be difficult or disturbing to view, I thought I’d take the time to compose an essay of uplifting images from the past year. The following are images of volunteers at work, expressions of love and compassion, families and friends at play, and assistance being given to those in need. Alternate titles considered were “The Good Side of 2015,” “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” or simply “News Photos That Won't Make You Despair for the Fate of Humanity.” One of my favorite quotes is from Mr. Rogers, who once said that when he was young and saw scary things in the news, “My mother would say to me ‘look for the helpers—you will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers—so many caring people in this world."
A Danish policeman plays a guessing game with a migrant girl at the E45 freeway north of Padborg, Denmark, on September 9, 2015. Many migrants, mainly from Syria and Iraq, were crossing through Denmark, trying to reach Sweden to seek asylum there. The police had closed the freeway for security reasons. #
Wish they would use the term refugee, not migrant though...
Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage, with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St. George, Ontario, Canada, on October 24, 2015. Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old. His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him, with a full parade, in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25. Evan passed away on December 6, about one month after his early Christmas. #
Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo, west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, on July 16, 2015. #
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/12/hopeful-images-from-2015/420066/ (Pic heavy)
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Thanks so much for posting them. 
I've seen that one of the old couple getting the house before, but it was great to see it again.