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[Lewis Howes @LewisHowes]

Not sure who needed to hear this today, but this is for you. 💛

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

A signature moment for a budding superstar ‼️

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Kindness

[Watertown Girls Basketball @WatertownGB]

Congratulations to Coach Wedig on being named Head Coach of the D2 North squad for the WBCA All-Star Game!

He and the team are raising funds for 5 Wisconsin charities—please consider supporting below.

https://t.co/jBoPMBjsM4

[MLB @MLB]

The @Brewers are bringing out ALL the big arms for #OpeningDay

Jordan Love delivers a ceremonial first pitch 🔥

[WLC Warriors @WLCSports]

WBB: Cole And Oiler Earn CSC Academic All-District® Honors #ArmorUp | #d3hoops https://t.co/8kzDrk2WPd

[Gunner @gunnersully21]

@ashleyoiler That’s so ash

[Wisconsin Basketball @BadgerMBB]

Grew up in this gym.
Made memories in this gym.

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

Real talk.

[WLC Warriors @WLCSports]

Your 2026 NACC TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS.

TIME TO DANCE.

#d3hoops #NACCtion #ArmorUp

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

KON KNUEPPEL MAKES HISTORY 🔥

THE ROOK IS ALSO THE FASTEST TO 200 THREES IN NBA HISTORY 🎯

[WLC Warriors @WLCSports]

WBB: Oiler, Knueppel Headline Wisconsin Lutheran's Six All-NACC Awards #ArmorUp | #d3hoops | #NACCtion https://t.co/kJn1udcI1Z

[Tre Oiler @Tre_Oiler]

Humbled to receive an Offer from @oregonfootball @CoachDanLanning @CoachJackSmith @CoachHarris28 @ArrowheadFB @TomLoy247 @GregSmithRivals @AllenTrieu @adamgorney @MJ_NFLDraft

[Tre Oiler @Tre_Oiler]

After a great conversation with @EvanMckissack I am humbled to receive an Offer from @GatorsFB. @CoachJonSumrall @CoachHarris28 @Corey_Bender @ttjharden8 @MJ_NFLDraft @sixstarfootball @McNamara_247 @Evan_Flood @AllenTrieu @ChadSimmons_

[WLC Women's Basketball @WLC_WBB]

It's game day! Two of the top teams in the conference go head-to-head tonight as the Warriors take on St. Norbert. 7:00 PM in De Pere - Show up and be loud! #ArmorUp

[Milwaukee Bucks @Bucks]

Good morning.

[Allistair McCaw @AllistairMcCaw]

QOTD:

[WLC Women's Basketball @WLC_WBB]

Making strides 💪⚔ Your Lady Warriors are ranked 18th in the D3 Hoops Week 1 Polls, and 25th in the WBCA Coaches Poll. Great start to the season but we have more work to do! #ArmorUp

[Tre Oiler @Tre_Oiler]

After a great conversation with @CoachBuchnerISU and @T_Mouser I am humbled to have received an Offer from @CycloneFB. Thank you for a great gameday visit. @ISUMattCampbell @DerekHoodjer @CoachHarris28 @KyyBurlingame @MatthewBong2 @williamseals @AllenTrieu @SWiltfong_

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson