I'm thankful for: THE MISSOULIAN

12-12-2013  Almost daily this paper has what I call "positive human interest" stories.  That's contrary to the print and electronic media lament (by many) of "all bad news".  I've praised that effort before, but this morning's paper has what I'd call more "neutral" items that are for me VERY uplifting.  Front page has a story of using cutting edge technology to share the "Native American"/Indian culture.  The plan is to put the native names of landmarks on Google Earth availability and later enable sharing the stories passed via oral tradition to people via electronics.  Then the Outdoors section has a story about backyard skating rinks.  I did an extremely rough version of that (flooded the RR tie surrounded garden) in Wisconsin about two and half decades ago.  Finally, a local column writer (Greg Tollefson) wrote of activity in the cold snap and tied that extremely well IMO to Mandela's legacy.  All together it sure started my day wonderfully.