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January 13, 2025
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

In the film “Love Actually,” the narrator looks at the scene in an airport arrivals gate – the hugs and the tears and the laughter – and feels hope for humanity. “General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that,” the narrator says. “It seems to me that love is everywhere.”

I think of that as I read Ali Martin’s story today about Californians’ response to the Los Angeles fires. News must meet hatred and greed head-on. But there are other stories to tell, depending on where we look – and not just during crises. Today, you can read about Megan Walsh and others determined to help, and feel a bit more conviction that love is indeed everywhere.


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Dialogue unit officers talk with people gathered at a rally in support of the Palestinian cause, in Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 24, 2024.
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Coco the goat rests on her bed in the parking lot at El Camino Real Charter High School where her owners sought refuge from the Palisades Fire, Jan. 8, 2025. Maji Anir and his family lost their Malibu home in the fire, and had trouble finding a place that would take them in with their pet goat.

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A young man carries a candle during an interfaith prayer service after the New Year's Day attack that killed 14 and injured more than 30 others, at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Jan. 6, 2025.
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Abdelkarim, the owner of a home which was damaged during the war between rebel groups and Bashar Assad regime, stands next to new tiles for rebuilding, in Saraqib, Syria, on Jan. 13, 2025.

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Young people celebrate Seijin no Hi, or Coming-of-Age Day, in Yokohama, Japan, Jan. 13, 2025. The centuries-old tradition and national holiday (since 1946) honors those who have turned 18 in the past year. (Prior to 2022, the official age was 20.) Young women often wear long-sleeved, vibrantly colored kimonos called “furisode.” Young men may wear a wide, trouser-like “hakama,” but often opt for Western-style clothing. The newly minted adults celebrate in a variety of ways from trips to Tokyo Disneyland, to a gathering in Yokohama Arena of 11,000 people, to “Climbing the Stairs to Adulthood,” an event in which participants walk up 60 floors to a building’s observation deck in Osaka.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. Please come back tomorrow for Patrik Jonsson’s portrait of Darien, Georgia, which elected Donald Trump and its first Black sheriff, a Democrat. Residents there say the second Trump administration represents for them, in different ways, a necessary wrestling with the core question, What does it really mean to be American?

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