Hospitality. It can mean an industry, a career, a trait of care, provision and welcoming. In the case of this 89-year-old man forced out of retirement to sell fruity iceblocks, a GoFundMe campaign ties them all together for his good – over $274,000 worth of good.

Farmers, nurses, sanitation workers, soldiers, all working together to make their ant colony strong and healthy. Turns out, ants have cities much like ours!

Signwriters.  Church signs are proving a quick bite of wonderful lately.  Also wonderful is a community-based organisation which raised funds to replace ALL the ads in a train station… with photos of cats available for adoption at a local shelter.

Bag ladies.  What happens when you take thousands of plastic bags, some women and a need?  Hand crocheted sleeping mats for homeless people.

Readers.  The results are in – 73% of Americans read a book in the past year. More people read physical books than e-books, but people reading on their phones and tablets is increasing. Check out this exploration of a study of reading broken into all sorts of statistics and groupings.

Writers.  If statistics aren’t your thing, but writing is, here is a fabulous list on “How to be a writer” from Rebecca Solnit.

Readers, writers, friends.  Woods had never read a book until he was in jail.  ““They say it takes a community to raise a child,” he told me. “It takes one to destroy a child, too.”” It’s an enthralling interview, involving self-education, a typo in an encyclopedia, the letter he wrote to the book’s editor, and their subsequent friendship.