The Army of Good is rich in heart and deep and mysterious. People I don’t know and have never heard from pop up all the time with aid for the Mansion residents and the Bishop Maginn High School Students, most of whom are refugees.

(I’m getting the next bouquet of fresh flowers for the Mansion Dinner Tables on Thursday, now that the quarantine is over and Covid has once again been banished, at least for now. Doing a portrait also with the Leica 2.)

Helen, from Evergreen Colo., had been collecting jewelry from local thrift stores for some time, and last week she packed all of them into a box – along with jam and homemade notecards and shipped them to me to divide up between the Mansion and the young women attending the prom in all of their fancy new dresses.

Next week, I’m bringing them to the high school; there are fifty or sixty beautiful necklaces in that box, all wrapped carefully in tissue paper. The Mansion gets the jam and the notecards.

Thanks so much, Helen. What a good heart you have. BMHS will close down in a month, right after the prom in mid-June. Zinnia has been chosen to lead the alumni parade down the red carpet.

This is going to be a prom for the history books. They are spending the $7,000 wisely and well, and any overage will go to food pantries in Albany. They plan to give away a good chunk of that money to needy families.

I’m getting a photo of that.