Mickey was a nice, cheerful and optimistic （乐观的）boy. No one could remember ever having seen him angry; he didn't mind  1  people said to him. Even his teachers2his good character. Everyone thought that Mickey must have a special3.

    One afternoon, Mickey invited his favorite teacher, Mr Anthony, to tea. When they had finished, Mickey showed Mr Anthony4the house. When he opened his bedroom door, the teacher got 5 and a big smile appeared on his face. The huge far wall was a collage （抽象拼贴画）of thousands of colors and shapes!

    "Some people at school think I never think6of anyone.Mickey started to explain," they believe nothing troubles me,7that's not true. I'm just like anyone else. I used to get8than all the other kids. But years ago, with the help of my parents, I started a small collage. I could use9material and color for it."

    The teacher looked closely at the wall. In each one of the small pieces he could10, in tiny letters, "fool", "11" and a thousand other negative （消极的）things.

    "This is how I started12all my bad times into a chance to make a new piece for my work of art. Now I like the collage13much that each time someone makes me angry, I couldn't be happier."

    That day they14many things, but the teacher never forgot that an ordinary boy's secret to be happy is to change the bad times into a15to smile. How special the secret is!

    New York is 3 hours ahead of California, but it does not make California slow.

    Someone graduated at the age of 22, but waited 5 years before finding a good job!

    Someone became a CEO at 25, and died at 50.

    While another became a CEO at 50, and lived to 90 years.

    Someone is still single, while someone else got married.

    Obama retires at 55, but Trump starts at 70.

    Absolutely everyone in this world works based on their Time Zone.

    People around you might seem to go ahead of you,                              .

    But everyone is running their own RACE, in their own TIME.

    Don't envy them or mock them.

    They are in their TIME ZONE, and you are in yours!

    Life is about waiting for the right moment to act.

    So, RELAX.

    You're not LATE. You're not EARLY.

    You are very much ON TIME, and in your TIME ZONE Destiny set up for you.

    If you've been paying attention, you know that rooks （乌鸦）are very intelligent birds. Now these geniuses have been given a job: six rooks have been trained to pick up rubbish in the Puy du Fou historical theme park in western France.

    Whenever these six rooks deposit a cigarette butt or other small pieces of trash in a special container, it gives out a treat rewarding （奖励）rooks for their efforts.

    The idea came from one of the park's falconers （放鹰者）, Christophe Gaborit. As part of the falconry show, rooks had been trained to pick up roses and bring them to a princess, so in the 2000s, Gaborit raised and trained two rooks to do the same with rubbish.

    The rooks started to pick up rubbish for the first time over the weekend, and they'll be working four days a week under close supervision （监视） not for the birds, but to make sure the humans don't deliberately （故意地）drop rubbish to watch the birds clean it up.

    The purpose of the rooks is to educate the people, to open their minds to think: OK, the birds are able to do something that we are much more able to do than them, so we should do this by ourselves," park president Nicolas de Villiers told NPR. "It's a funny way to show the people that you cannot throw the papers everywhere."

    Mrs. Brown, who lived alone in the Bridge Block, was asking for help because of his missing cat. "My baby has been missing for over a month now, and I want him back so badly," said Mrs. Brown. She said that Clyde, her 12-year-old cat, didn't come home for dinner more than a month ago. Although he was old and weak, Mrs. Brown loved him a lot. The next morning, he didn't appear for breakfast either. After Clyde missed an extra-special lunch, she called the police.

    When the policeman asked her to describe Clyde, she told him that Clyde had beautiful green eyes, had all his teeth but was missing half of his left ear, and was twelve years old and totally white. She then told the officer that Clyde was about a foot high.

    "Is Clyde your child or your pet?" the officer doubtfully asked. "Well, he's my cat, of course,"Mrs. Brown replied. "Lady, you're supposed to report missing PERSONS, not missing CATS," said the irritated policeman. "Well, who can I report this to?" she asked. "You can't. You have to ask around your neighborhood or put up flyer （传单）replied the officer.

    Mrs. Brown figured that a notice board would work a lot better than a piece of paper on a telephone pole. There was an empty billboard at the end of her street just off the highway. Cars only passed by smoothly between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. The rest of the day, the highway was so full of drivers that no one moves. She took most of the money out of her savings account and rented the notice board with $3,000 for a month.

    The month has passed, but Clyde has not appeared. Because she has almost no money in savings, Mrs. Brown called the local newspaper to see if anyone could help her rent the notice board for just one more month. She is waiting but, so far, no one has stepped forward.

    Today, after 10 days of medical treatment, for the first time, I went out alone to meet a motherly lady who I had met during my stay in a program. She had been unwell recently and I lived alone. Her sons live in foreign countries.

    After I called her and told about my plan to visit her, she started becoming excited and happily planning food at once. Nowadays, she has a lady cook coming by to help her but she does part of the work herself with her bandaged leg.

    I reached her home alone after being guided a couple of times by her before. I carried little things (snacks, books etc.) for her. She had been waiting for some time when I arrived. We talked about different things from health to her life and mine, from past to future, from food to travel etc. During the discussion, her care for me became clear when she made warm suggestions or supported me.

    During the last few months, she had struggled with health and housework. She had got over those difficulties and here she was telling me how all of us must face some problems. She had seen a few people facing worse problems in the hospital and mentioned about their cases and was grateful for her present condition which was manageable.

    She wanted to gift me something—she kept thinking of a dress, watch, footwear etc. whatever was new and great in her home. I kept refusing but finally took the footwear out of politeness.

    She loved the snacks I had brought and wanted to eat them with her tea. I was quite happy to see the child like interest.

    While I was spending time with my motherly friend, the following thought kept coming back to me-probably this is why I have lived through the 10 days in this city. The time I spent with her seemed so much needed. I felt the deep peace it could bring to me and that brought such a big joy!

Mike: Why were you late for class today, Steve?

Steve: My alarm clock didn't go off! I kept, and when I woke up it was already 8:00a.m.!

Mike: Oh, no!

Steve: So I just put on some clothes and rushed out the door.

Mike: You didn't have breakfast?

Steve: No, I didn't even brush myor wash my face! But before I got to the bus stop, the bus had already left.

Steve: Then how did you get here?

Mike: Luckily, Carl's dad saw me on the street andme a lift in his car
Steve: Well, at leastthe time you got to school, you were only five minutes late for class.

    Shane Drossard is being praised as a hero after he saved a woman earlier this week. The homeless man had been camping out under the Washington Avenue Bridge when he（hear）a loud splash at 2 am. He heard a woman's voice（come） from the river. The 35-year-old woman had tried to kill（her） by jumping off the bridge. she didn't die during the fall, she got caught in the running water below.

    WCCO interviewed Shane Drossard the other day. According tointerview, he got into the river, and made great efforts to hold the woman so she wouldn't get swept away by the current.

    As Drossard waited help to arrive, he told the woman that she was beautiful; she had so much to live; he was there for her.(final), the police arrived on time. And the woman(take) to the hospital for treatment. When WCCO asked he did so, Drossard said:" I just wanted to do good for somebody."

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    As the old saying goes: "The rose's in her hand; the flavor in mine." …