May 11, 2018 2 min read

Who doesn’t like a happy ending? Especially when it comes about from terrible, grim beginnings. I, like many people, was involved in the search for Vickie Snyder’s two lost dogs. No one could imagine such a horrible scenario of dealing with a critically injured son and the gut-wrenching uncertainty of lost family pets at the same time, so it’s easy to see how so many people became a part of the search. It was an awful thing, but it became a wonderful thing. I met a lot of very nice, kind, caring people whom I never would have met otherwise. I canvassed my neighborhood and talked to people I hadn’t seen or spoken to in a while, all concerned, empathetic people.

Then it occurred to me. There is far more good in the world than bad. In these troubling times, all you see in the news and most of what you read in the papers are examples of the lack of humanity of man toward others. Wars, deceit, abuse, drugs, disrespectful acts against others. We are sick of it. This was an opportunity for people to show their goodness. Now that Joshua is on the mend and the dogs have been found, take a step back and appreciate what we have and what we are.

Sally Brown-Pawlosky

Hickory