Good people

I had lunch with my awesome, amazing friend Mikki. I know it was a great lunch because my cheeks hurt from smiling when it was over. Our conversation was wide-ranging (as it always is). And, like always, I came away with a sense that all is right with the world as long as Mikki’s in it. She’s just good people, bringing balance and love wherever she goes.

After lunch, I went to pick up a prescription and the parking lot was full of Georgia Power trucks. I do not live in Georgia. However, after some awful, terrible, very bad storms here in New York, there are hundreds of thousands of people still without power. And so our local utility company has been accepting mutual aid from power companies up and down the East Coast. It made me feel good that these guys (they all looked like guys from where I was sitting) left their homes and families to come help out some strangers in New York. I know they were being paid, but they could have let someone else make the trip.

Inside the drugstore, I found a friend who’s going to lend me her minivan so I can go pick up a new elliptical machine, which I’m getting from a fellow freecycler. I’m new to freecycling, but I just love the concept. Basically, it’s an organized space where people who need stuff can connect with people who need to give stuff away. I placed an old exercise bike on there on Monday morning and it was picked up by Monday afternoon. And I got to pick the worthy recipient! Turns out that among the 19 or so people who were interested, there was a young woman whose father-in-law needed a bike for health purposes. And hse worked at a local school for kids with disabilities. And she sent me a thank you note!

At the end of the day, I’m finding my faith in humanity restored. There really are good people all around if we take the time to look for them.