It always amazes us when people going through adversity most of us can only imagine turn their thoughts to others. See Evan Houk’s front-page article about Wiscasset’s Richard Kubler.
Going through a terrible disease – a reward for his selfless service on perhaps the worst day in our nation’s history – he finds an opportunity to draw attention to a need all of us can help fill.
Kind of puts your own problems into perspective, doesn’t it? We know it does ours.
What is your worst problem? Some temporary inconvenience at work? The offensive struggles of the Patriots? Gordon Hayward’s hand injury? (Most of our “problems” have to do with Boston sports.)
Whatever it is, in most cases it is not an aggressive cancer linked to a terrorist attack.
We should all take our cue from Mr. Kubler to focus less on our problems and more on what we can do for others.
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Grandparents do not really get their due.
Jessica Clifford’s front-page article about 100-year-old Kenneth Chaney, of Alna, includes a touching story of the lengths Mr. Chaney went to in order to retrieve a kite for an upset granddaughter.
We won’t spoil the story here. While a small act, it demonstrates the love of a grandparent.
We see many grandparents raising their grandkids in this community, for one reason or another.
We celebrate Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and days for lots of questionable historical and make-believe characters we have never met, but do we really take time to honor our grandparents?
We could do better. They deserve it.
