"The city sleeps and the country sleeps, The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, And such as it is to be of these more or less I am, And of these one and all I weave the song of myself." -Walt Whitman
Monday, July 12, 2004
A quick reminder: People are awesome
You know sometimes you hear something that touches you so much you just have to tell the world. Well I heard a story tonight. A woman whom, after taking care of a blind friend, inherited a very large sum of money. With this money and her husband's support, the couple has set out to help the world by sending people to college. They have taken in children as their own, raised them, and sent them, debt free, through college! When they heard the story of family friend who couldn't afford college, they offered to pay. The only condition is that they pay them back whatever they can afford, whenever they can afford it. Wow. Between the war and politics, I easily forget how awesome people can be.
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Amen to that, sister! Its hard to see the good that's going on around you when the headlines are full of people doing bad things.
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