With sequestration about to hit, maybe everyone just needs a feel-good story to help them focus on the greater good.

Reddit user propine provides it today with a gallery of pictures of a group of people helping a duck and her nine ducklings get from a park near the World Bank headquarters to a pond by the National Mall. (Last year a group of ducks were helped across K Street NW.)

Seriously, just try to stop your heart from melting. It’s hard.