Decency

Last evening I happened on a pastiche of interviews that Charlie Rose did with the late past president over several decades. It came up as the first choice of YouTube and I stayed with it until the end. It showed an impressive human being that has been enforced by all the tributes in the morning papers. I found David Shribman’s in the Globe and Mail less impressive that that of Samantha Power in the the NY Times.

When one despairs of the world today, as I have done over the past few days, I like the simple fact that Jimmy Carter and his wife lived simply - exercised and ate property because they thought their lives mattered - not for fame or glory, but to be able to do good things - build houses for Habitat for Humanity, visit and support the African poor, teach Sunday School. “Stayin Alive” for these things is an inspiration.

Spoiler alert - I came up with the heading before I saw that Joe Biden used it!