Serendipity

This past Saturday, Eric Dennis, the founder of This is a Good Sign, went to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, DC. He was blown away by the crowd and it's reception of Good Signs and the celebrities, other than hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, that showed up to support the cause.

What he didn't expect was Stewart's closing speech to mirror so many of his intentions with Good Signs. Real concerns about the abundance of negativity being spread and consumed within society mixed with comedy, Stewart's speech touched on everything from media, politics, the false image of our citizens, the fragility of our country and an "unexpected flaming ants epidemic."

Even with all this negativity, as he pointed out, we work together to get to better times.

"Because we know, instinctively, as a people, that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light, we have to work together. And the truth is, there will always be darkness, and sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn't the Promised Land. Sometimes it's just New Jersey."

   -Jon Stewart

As Stewart spoke, Dennis looked at the fliers he was handing out, that read, "...it is hard to find peace, harmony and the good things in life. Good Signs wants to initiate a movement towards communal harmony and optimism..."

It made him realize the wish for better times is high up on everyone's list these days. It seems like Good Signs were in the right place at the right time.