Feel Good

Last week a 4-year-old victim of the recent California wildfires told a television news reporter that all his toys burned up when his house burned down.

Well, that’s all it took for his neighbors to come flooding out of their homes the very next day, toys and children’s clothes and books in hand, to help little Andrew Stanley recover from his losses.

In most cases, it wasn’t even the neighborhood parents who initiated the generous act, but their own young children who found themselves heartbroken to see the suffering of another child just like them who suddenly found all his treasured belongings wiped out in one fell swoop.

Even kids from outside his Anaheim Hills community, kids Andrew didn’t even know, traveled from far and wide after seeing that story on TV, their own personal treasures in hand, inspired to give them up in order to help another child just like them to restore some of his fire-damaged happiness.

If anybody doubts that acts of kindness still exist in this crazy world of ours, here is proof-positive that a selfless love of strangers is still alive and well. And coming from the youngest members of our community.