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LESA LIGHT: The world needs more Dollys

I don’t usually follow celebrities very much.

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I don’t care who Katy Perry is dating. I don’t know if it’s Ryan Reynolds or Ryan Gosling who is Canadian without looking it up. And I sure don’t give a toss why Harry and Meghan have moved back to the U.K.

But since Dolly Parton died, I’ve read of all the wonderful things she’s done and how her philosophy was to help others and be kind to folks. Then I got sad. With her signature blonde wigs, makeup, bling, and large ‘assets,’ it was easy to dismiss her as fluff, but she truly wasn’t that at all. She was the down-to-earth homespun genuine article.

Coming from a poor hill family of 12,........

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