🇫🇷🇬🇧 Volunteer clowns are performing for migrants in a camp near Calais, a primary launch point for small-boat crossings into the UK. They juggle, mime, and give out high-fives in red noses while about 2,500 people wait for free meals and a chance to cross. The migrants mostly just stare in confusion... SURREAL 🤡 Writers: Sol, Michael

tukaram mundhe doing his job should 100% be celebrated don’t all of us want to be celebrated, given high fives, bonuses, for doing our jobs? yes, right? then it should also apply to govt authorities they must know good deeds don’t go unnoticed and doing their job is worth it

My grandfather in Florida sits in an armchair for eighteen hours a day. He tells me he feels like a discarded ghost. In Tokyo, an 83-year-old retired carpenter stands at a four-lane crosswalk at 7:30 AM. Green volunteer sash. Bright yellow safety flag. At 7:40 AM, forty elementary school children turn the corner. They don't ignore him. They run toward him like he is a rock star. "Good morning, Grandpa Kenji!" "Look at my new eraser!" The old man beams with fierce, protective pride. He raises his yellow flag, steps into the road, halts three lanes of city traffic with one hand, and high-fives every single child as they cross safely. In America, we put our elderly away in facilities to die of loneliness. In Japan, we put a flag in their hands and make them the guardians of the future. He doesn't have an empty life. He has forty reasons to wake up before dawn.