Without Johnny Spangler there would likely be no kindness classes.

Many, many years ago, when Johnny was a pre-teen student of mine at a local elementary school, he lamented the fact that most of what he heard on the news was bad or negative news. He vowed to change that and started the Good News Newspaper. A year later he was one of the founding students at PSCS and in response to his continued interest in hearing about positive things, the first kindness class was born.

I just learned tonight that Johnny has a small brain tumor and is being operated on tomorrow morning. His prognosis is excellent, the location of the tumor being accessible and not appearing to invoke any long-term damage. This is good news.

In fact, given the nausea, dizziness and headaches Johnny has been experiencing, he took the diagnosis of a brain tumor as good news. “Now we know what to do,” his mother told me he said.

I’m counting on more good news coming tomorrow.

By the way, today’s photo is from 1995 and was taken on the last day of the first year of PSCS. Johnny is third from the left in the multi-colored shirt.

Today’s “Question:” Share some good news with us.