It’s a phrase you hear often in news stories: an outpouring of support. In the last several weeks alone, this has been used to describe situations like a community’s response to someone who has been robbed, fundraising for medical bills for a car crash victim, and most recently the resources provided to storm victims.…
I’ve been thinking a lot today about the quote from Fred Rogers. Actually, I know him best as Mr. Rogers, from one of my favorite childhood TV shows. “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always…
“I have a dog named Otis, who is a rescue.” I usually introduce him that way signifying that the “rescue” part is more important than any other label. For him, it is. I think the story goes that he and his brother were left in a garbage bag near a cemetery. When they were found,…