A few weeks ago

[koopie57]

my daughter was put in the hospital under a suicide watch. She was 300 miles away and I found out about it as I was walking out the door going to work. The hospital was not in our insurance network and we were not sure what would be paid, but were told we could send her to Des Moines via a free ambulance ride. There it would be covered in full but it was a county facility. We decided against that.

Last night her college orchestra, which she is a part of, played a "hometown concert" (meaning the orchestra traveled to one of the students hometown and put on a concert). People in the community took the students in and on Sunday morning they play in different church services as it is a Lutheran college.

It was almost surreal as there was a snow storm outside, the event took place in a small elementary school gym and there were probably only 100 people or so in attendance, but you would have though it was in the greatest orchestra hall in the world. Afterward I went to the instructor, Dr. Hutchinson (I have to reach up to slip my arms around his waist and I could only reach about 3/4ths the way around) and I shook his hand and thanked him for the kindness he shown my daughter by understanding her needs. He looked down at me and said "I am happy to care for her and to tend to her needs. Not because she is my student, but because she is my friend."

What a wonderful man! How bad can the world be with people like him getting up each day to make things as best as he can make them. I have hope. But, I guess my point is that in spite of George Bush, it is a good world.

[UrbScotty]

1. It's easy to overlook the beauty this world has to offer.

It's imnportant not to, however.