• I had a wonderful weekend. It was a long time since that last happened and it was all because I helped out another person in need. I was driving home Friday night when I saw an older woman walking home from a Family Dollar store. She was past middle age and her gait had a limp in it as she carried at least 8 bags worth of groceries. At first I passed her and thought to myself, “Well, she musn’t be far from home if she walked to the store in the first place- she’ll be all right.” Yet, there was a nagging sense of guilt in the back of my mind as I passed her. I thought about how practicing Justice can mean wronging none by omitting the benefits that are your duty and realized what it was my own duty to perform. I turned the car around and turned on the overhead lights inside the car so that the woman would not be startled as I pulled up next to her. At first glance she looked like she would flee, so I gently called out to her in Spanish, asking her if she needed a ride. She hesitated for a second and asked me if it would be out of the way- if I was completely sure that giving her a ride would not be too much trouble. I replied, “Of course not. It’s no trouble at all.” And then, with that, she gave me the biggest smile I had ever seen. I opened the passenger side door for her and caught her surprised look as I asked her to sit in the front seat. She was an older Hispanic woman used to being given the backseat in life and, by God, I was not about to let her this time. For the first time in a long time she sat in the front seat with dignity. Once settled in, I introduced myself to her. Her name was Adelina, and for those few minutes that we spent together I felt I knew her- and it made me very happy.