Tag Inspiring Stories
Rika Matsuda was seven years old and very excited about her new bike. It was faster than her old one and she was riding it around a park in Japan when she found out, a little late, that the brakes… Continue Reading →
Jasper Steinmetz was walking through a park in Austin, Texas, when he noticed the backpack. It was red, and it had the Indiana University logo on it. Steinmetz had just graduated from Indiana. He figured – why not? – and… Continue Reading →
Adam James had been putting off going to a music festival for years. Not because he didn’t want to. He loves music deeply – he’s an aspiring drum and bass DJ who performs under the name Adzo, and the thought… Continue Reading →
In May 2022, just after his eighth-grade year, a 14-year-old boy from Kansas City named Dylan Mwaniki was diagnosed with renal medullary carcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of Stage 4 kidney cancer. Doctors told his family he had maybe… Continue Reading →
There’s something quietly unsettling about the idea of being left behind without understanding why, and somewhere deep in the wild terrain of New Zealand, a dog lived through exactly that kind of silence, not for a few minutes or hours,… Continue Reading →
There’s something about funerals that we don’t really talk about until we’re forced to face one, something quiet and uncomfortable about the idea that at the end of everything, when all the noise of life has settled, what really matters… Continue Reading →