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Hope you are all doing as well as you can be doing with all that's going on in our world today. I've been watching the news lately and thinking about the stuff we hear that are utterly unbelievable and that sometimes make me think we have passed the point of no return as far as humanity goes. We hear stuff like the clip today of the young man in his ROTC uniform that suffers a seizure in the middle of the street only to have some dispecable low-life rob him while he's suffering this. Or the two elderly folks that were senselessly beating this week in Hyde Park. I'll never understand folks that would hurt the elderly, the handicap or children. My great-grandmother was murdered when she was beaten to death during a robbery. I've never understood why they couldn't just tie her up and take what they wanted. She was 85 years old, what was she going to do about it??

Then, like a ray of sunshine, you hear the stories that warm your heart so much you just cry from it. Little 15-month old Edwin who was brought here from Honduras to receive treatment for lymphatic malformations. His family in Honduras would have never been able to provide this child with this kind of treatment on their own. But God is great and he made sure that the Collins family from Concord, MA, another donor in Honduras who was not named and Dr. Joe Upton of Shriner's Hospital were there to make a difference. These people came together to help a baby in need simply because they are GOOD people. Let me tell you guys something about Shriner's: There on my list of institutions I would shower with donations if I'm ever in a position to do so. The year was 1991 and for reason we never found out, my aunt's boyfriend burned my then 2 year old baby cousin from the waist to his ankles with scalding water. The burns were so bad he had to have skin grafts done and it was all so painful for this tiny baby. Who was there to help a family with no resources? Shriner's. Free of charge. He spend a month in the hospital and countless months of follow up treatments. I have never forgotten how amazing they were. My cousin is now 19 years old and unless someone tells you, you'd never know this happened. We owe them so much.

The moral of this story is that MAYBE, just MAYBE there is still enough kindness left out there to save ourselves because the way we are going, it's not going to be good. Let's see what happens.

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