Sad news today, but a powerful reminder of People Doing Good Things™:

"In the early 90’s Dolly promised every 7th-grade and 8th-grade student she would personally give them $500 if they graduated from high school. This effort, called the Buddy Program, reduced the drop out rate for these two classes from 35% to 6%. More importantly, the program catalyzed the community to provide additional resources to sustain this improvement in the drop out rate."

We are often concerned (rightly) about those that spread hate, but kindness also spreads and has incredible long term impacts on our world. Let's concern ourselves with doing more of that :-)