With all the bad news today, any chance for a little non-ironic cheer is most welcome. A couple of weeks ago, Austin’s Samaritan Counseling Center launched a new social media site, www.RecognizeGood.com, to offer antidotes-via-anecdotes, encouraging public recognition of good news as a counterbalance to all the crap bogging us down. The site is a public forum where anyone can post thank-you notes to acknowledge and honor good deeds done by others. Not only that, but the organization makes charitable donations in honor of the good deed doers. more ›