I got inundated with bad news every day.
It can get pretty depressing, handling one negative story after another.
When I got a call last week from Esther Cohen-Eskin, I thought I was in for one more.
She was dismayed to learn that her trash can had been vandalized, spray-painted with an all too familiar symbol of hate.
That's when the story took a great twist. Instead of simmering with anger, Cohen-Eskin too a different tack, and turned a negative story into a positive.
Encouraged by some neighbors and friends, she took out some paints and turned the graffiti on her trash can into a piece of art. The ugly swastika was transformed into a beautiful flower.
Now comes the best part. The story doesn't end there.
When her Havertown neighbors learned what had happened, they started painting their trash cans as well.
Bottom Line: It's one thing to say "not in our neighborhood." It's another to take action - not lashing out in anger, but with love.
The goal was to "take an ugly message and make something beautiful out of it," according to one neighbor, Sonya Klimuk.
You can read about the results here.
We love a great story. And we love how Eskin-Cohen and her friends and neighbors handled this situation.
Love conquers Hate.
Maybe more of us should adopt that attitude.
Thank you, Esther Cohen-Eskin.
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