Beasts of The Southern Wild

The world is always smaller than I believe.

Imagine being a simple woman in the heartland, someone who volunteers in a kindergarten class or does tours at a small aviation museum.

I do good things, but they are on such a tiny scale compared to so many others.

Imagine a teenager being so moved by the plight of a people he sees at fourteen that he makes a movie about them years later.  Imagine basing that movie on a six year old girl whose courage and actions change her world!  Imagine a young man in the wilderness of the south giving his students the opportunity to touch the lives of people who have used their lives so beautifully.

This is an example of how goodness grows, rolling forward, picking up momentum.

Beasts of the Southern Wild has won, or been nominated for, nearly every major movie award.  It speaks to the best in all of us from its conception to its story to the changes it is bringing to the real world.

And it touches me even more today as my bestest, my best friend, shows his students that great things are possible no matter how small and insignificant you may think you are.