What's encouraging you these days? What's keeping your spirits up? We'll post new bits of encouragement from us and you.

Please Note: This is our third Bits of Encouragement page. If you'd like to visit the two previous pages, go to https://menucha.org/bits-of-encouragement and https://menucha.org/bits-of-encouragement-starting-april-19

As before, we'll just keep adding new items to this top area of the page, so you'll be able to scroll down and see past posts.

5 Roots Artists Who Sing About Racial Injustice & Oppression

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-_XNN8B9vD/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Spring is especially full of little things

I stopped and looked closer

did a little macro photography

Wow! The intricacy of those beautiful flowers.

Portland man collects feel-good stories for new map, website

Tom Hallman Jr. writes in the May 29, 2020 Oregonian/OregonLive, "Worn out from the onslaught of bad news in the era of COVID-19, a Portland man set out to scour the world for good stories that lifted his spirits.

Over the past few months, he’s found them and then created a website that features nothing but good news from places as far away as Mongolia, China and Angola." Visit this good news website: https://oneworld-stories.org/

Looking forward to coming back to the Columbia River Gorge? Enjoy coloring? (try it, it's not just for kids and yes, you can color outside of the lines if you want).

East Multnomah County Soil & Water Conservation District made available a downloadable and printable book.

Enjoy the creativity of it.

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

― Warren Buffett

Shared with us by a friend of Menucha who lives in Portland:
BLIND DATE WITH A BOOK! If you live in Portland, you can stop by my house and pick up a blind date.   It's like a Little Free Library with an air of mystery.

In the depths of the ocean, and out of sight for most of us, there’s a quiet miracle happening.

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Article points out whale recovery is good news for whales (of course) and also economically and environmentally.

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“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”  ― Rachel Carson