CNN Friday January 3, 2025
In the holiday rush you may have missed some important news: Global color specialist Pantone has named Mocha Mousse (PANTONE 17-1230) as its color of the year for 2025. The company called Mocha Mousse “a mellow brown infused with a sensorial and comforting warmth’—a hue that “nurtures with its suggestion of the delectable quality of cacao, chocolate and coffee, appealing to our desire for comfort.” Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, said the color evokes “thoughtful indulgence,” noted CNN in December. So have a thoughtful and indulgent new year!
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npr Friday January 3, 2025
After leaving the Oval Office with dismal approval ratings, former President Jimmy Carter dedicated the rest of his life to public service. Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, devoted himself to improving the health of people around the world, promoting democracy and resolving global conflicts, winning the approval of the American public by rebuilding homes with Habitat for Humanity and establishing the nonprofit Carter Center, which among other work monitors international elections, notes NPR, which features news service images looking back at how Carter redefined the post-presidency role.
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Daily Mail Friday January 3, 2025
Hundreds of bird watchers and bird photographers have descended on the English village of New Hythe, Kent, to catch a glimpse of an American yellow warbler, notes the Daily Mail. The “foreign visitor” was first spotted in New Hythe, near Maidstone in Kent, on Christmas Eve, The bird, which is native to North America and the Caribbean, was last sighted on British shores in 2017. A local man, Glenn Honey, made the most recent sighting. “After I sent some pictures to a Kent bird WhatsApp group the area then became bombarded with people after that,” he noted.
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The Washington Post Friday January 3, 2025
Jason Crowley’s grandmother was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2019 at the age of 92. That’s when he started taking pictures of her life as “a way for us to spend time together,” Crowley tells The Washington Post. The images have won Crowley the Bob and Diane Fund Award, an annual grant for visual storytellers — photographers, video producers, multimedia artists — who produce work about Alzheimer’s and dementia. “There is both love and pain contained in this story,” said Sarah Leen, one of the fund’s judges.
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