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Sergio Outdoors

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It was never meant to be a moment etched in baseball history. No one walked into Fenway Park on August 8, 1982, expecting to witness anything more than the usual rhythm of summer baseball—hot dogs in hand, scorecards scrawled with pencil, and the comforting murmur of the crowd blending with the sounds of the game.

But that day, the game itself became a footnote.

The crack of a bat broke through the afternoon air, a sharp, clean sound that sent a foul ball screaming toward the stands. In the split-second that followed, time seemed to slow for everyone—except for one man.

A four-year-old boy, there to enjoy the game with his family, didn’t have time to react. The ball struck him in the head. Gasps rippled through the stadium, and in a heartbeat, joy turned to dread. Spectators rose in confusion, and panic began to mount. The boy collapsed. His family froze. Security hesitated. Medical help was somewhere in the maze of Fenway.

Then Jim Rice moved.

From the dugout, the Red Sox slugger had seen the whole thing. And in that moment, he didn’t think about the game, the cameras, or the risk. He didn’t call for help. He didn’t point fingers. He ran.

He sprinted into the stands, lifting the unconscious child into his arms like he’d known him his whole life. He didn’t cradle him with caution—he held him with a purpose, with urgency, with the unmistakable determination of someone who had already decided this boy was going to live. No security checkpoint, no crowd control—just one man weaving through the chaos with a bleeding child in his arms and his heart in his throat.

Rice laid the boy on the dugout floor where team doctors were waiting. EMTs arrived, and eventually the boy was taken to the hospital. He survived. Not because it was a miracle. Because Jim Rice made it happen.

Doctors later said that if Rice hadn’t acted so quickly, that boy might not have made it through the night. It wasn’t just the gesture—it was the seconds he saved. Seconds that mattered.

And still, the story didn’t end there.

Rice visited the hospital later, quietly, away from the headlines. That’s when he learned the family didn’t have much—no wealth, no cushion for hospital bills. And again, Rice did something that never showed up in any stat sheet. He walked to the hospital’s business office and made sure the medical costs were redirected to him.

No press release. No spotlight. Just grace.

He returned to the game that same day wearing a bloodstained uniform, no theatrics, no posturing. Just a man who had done something heroic and saw no reason to tell anyone about it.

This wasn’t a baseball moment. This wasn’t a highlight reel or a tale to inflate a career. It was human. Raw. Real.

And maybe that’s what makes it unforgettable. Because in the midst of a game designed to celebrate strength, speed, and stats, Jim Rice reminded the world that true greatness isn’t measured in home runs or batting averages.

It’s measured in instinct. In compassion. In the willingness to run into the stands—not for glory, but for life.

That moment—more than any MVP award or All-Star appearance—became the truest mark of Jim Rice’s legacy. A legacy written not just in the record books, but in the life he saved.

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Ford Del Rio Ranch Wagon, 1958. A 2-door station wagon that was marketed as an outdoor lifestyle vehicle, a market that would now been seen as the realm of SUVs. As can be seen in these publicity photos it was associated with camping, fishing and outdoor pursuits. A 4 door version was added but the Ranch Wagon remained as the entry level full-size station wagon. It carried on through several more generations before finally being discontinued in 1974

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In a quiet corner of the world, hidden beneath ivy and shadows, a life came to an end.

No one noticed at first. The world kept moving. Cars rushed by, people scrolled through phones, laughter echoed from open windows. But beneath a patch of green, near an old stone fountain, a tiny heartbeat had stopped.

She was just a stray cat to most—dirty, unnoticed, forgotten. No name, no collar. No home.

But she had once known love.

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Not long ago, she used to wait at the park’s edge every morning. Her fur, though matted, had a shimmer under the morning sun. Children sometimes threw her scraps, and old men spoke gently to her. But there was one boy—just one—who saw her not as a stray, but as a soul.

He named her **Mimi**.

He brought her milk in a paper cup, food wrapped in napkins, and stories whispered under trees. He told her about school, about being lonely, about dreams he didn't dare say out loud to anyone else. And Mimi listened—always there, her little body curled beside him, her purrs louder than the silence of his life.

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But seasons change. And life, cruel as it is, does not always wait for goodbyes.

One winter, the boy stopped coming.

Maybe his family moved. Maybe school took him somewhere far. No one ever knew. But Mimi waited—day after day, in the cold, in the rain, in the wind that cut through her thinning fur.

Her eyes grew dim.

Her steps slower.

But still, she waited.

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Until one day, she couldn’t wait anymore.

She lay down near the bushes, where the grass met the soil, in the only place that had ever felt like hers. With the last warmth of the earth beneath her body and the distant scent of the boy still lingering in memory, she closed her eyes.

She was not found by someone who would weep, nor buried by someone who knew her name. She was seen only later—by someone who took a picture, maybe in sorrow, maybe in shock.

But that moment—the image of her lying still beneath the ivy—tells a story louder than any scream.

A story of how even the smallest lives can carry oceans of love.

A story of how the world moves too fast to notice a final breath.

A story of how every creature, no matter how forgotten, deserves a goodgoodby

If you’re reading this now, pause.

Think of Mimi.

Not just as a cat, but as every lost, voiceless being who ever waited for someone who didn’t return. Think of how much love exists in silence. Think of how many lives pass without a witness.

Then go outside.

Look around.

And if you see a stray—feed her.

Pet him.

Name them.

Be the one who notices.

Because sometimes, one human heart is all a creature ever has.

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Today is D-Day +81 years. For some people, that’s a lifetime come and gone. For others, it’s a moment in history that we read about in books, and watch in films. For all of us, it’s a day that we stop and remember the ultimate sacrifices made by the men and women of our armed forces as they fought for freedom. It’s our job now, to keep their memories and their names, alive. To remind the world what they fought for, and that they did not die in vain.

Lest we forget.

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Datsun 280ZX 10th Anniversary 1980. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

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Datsun 240Z 1969. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

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Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2: