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She was nearly right. When Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodrguez described the rescue of two-year-old Kleiber Moran as "source of hope for our people", she didn't go far enough. I reckon the entire world cheered. Finally good news, some joy amid the devastation.

Tiny Kleiber was pulled from the rubble where he'd been buried since the shocking double earthquake in Venezuela's northern La Guaira state. Nearly six days under rocks. An absolute joyful miracle. And we all definitely need more joy. Less hate and much more love.

It's why I do my very best to look at happiness before I go to sleep. Pictures of my grandchildren mainly. Pictures of my children looking so grown up. Of course they do, since they're all over 35. And for the last couple of days, I've been checking in on Kleiber's health. Happily, his aunt shared good news with the BBC:

"He doesn't even have a single fracture. Everything is very good. All he has are some scratches here on his arms and on his legs, but nothing more."

I've written before about joyscrolling, the practice of looking for beautiful stories or images before bedtime. I patted myself on the head assuming joyscroll was a word I'd made up, a lovely contrast to doomscrolling which I can be a bit prone to do. Competing natural and manmade disasters can send me spiralling on a doomloop.

But I went looking for the use of the word joyscroll. Not me. First used, I think, by the lovely people at an Icelandic tourism organisation which used a unique joyscroll address which sent you to soothing, melodic images of fjords and water and sky. That's gone now, the address has been colonised by some awful betting site. I clicked off as soon as I realised the joy was gone.

A new scoping review, looking at all the research already out there, by Dylan R. Poulus from Southern Cross University and a whole bunch of British researchers........

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