Good people

In the midst of all the money grubbing, power pulling nastiness that seems to have taken over our country, I flipped channels and found Dolly Parton's fund raiser for Gatlinburg.

This is more the country I have loved all my life.

People are gathering together to help those who are hurting.

I have been through Gatlinburg many times in my life, starting when I was sixteen and my aunt and uncle drove us through this little town with black bear cubs  rifling through the trash and later on, after having driven my own sixteen year old son to work at a summer camp, we rented a house up in those mountains.

I took a photograph up there that was so stunning we blew it up and framed it to hang over our mantlepiece. Now those woods are gone along with the lives of people and pets and other animals who became the victims of a fire started by some teens playing with fire.

In the midst of the sorrow, it is good to see so many people coming forward to help those they don't even know, but who are kindred spirits to good people everywhere.