There was a very good opinion piece on CNN this Christmas Eve morning entitiled, "When Bedford Falls Becomes Pottersville". Over the years, I've watched my hometown slowly turn into Pottersville and I don't like it.
I have it on very good authority that "Feed the Birds", from 1964's "Mary Poppins" was Walt Disney's favorite song/sequence out of all of the Disney films. It's also mine.
It's about charity and doing the right thing, even when charity and doing the right thing isn't easy - giving even when you don't have much yourself . . . acting for good even when it hurts.
It's not a bad message to ponder at Christmas. Alas, it's also a message that Asheboro's "non-profit" medical sector totally did not get (leaving so many of the people it was supposed to serve behind in the mill town cold) . . . a message I intend to keep hammering home on this blog . . . and (shortly, I hope) in other venues . . . until Randolph Hospital, the people running it - and the "public servants" winking and nodding at all-that's-been-done-under-their-noses-in-charity's-name-to-pervert-charity clean up their act and are held accountable.
Merry Christmas. Thanks to everyone who reads this blog. And Happy New Year.
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