There's a thing that happens when a certain kind of person passes. You don't have to have been a fan. One morning, almost everything in my feed was a note to Dolly Parton.
I didn't grow up in the US, so I didn't have her the way other people did. Then I spent a while reading other people's notes and got a glimpse of her force and generosity. I left that morning moved and inspired.
I hadn't seen a goodbye like this, and I wanted to document it. It didn't cross my mind that I had no technical skills. I just wanted this blurry idea to exist in the world. And emboldened by AI, I got a bit delirious that I could pull it off.
Thanks to the brilliance and "patience" of an AI assistant, I was able to let my imagination take shape into a little site. It's an homage to the many ways Dolly's generosity has touched people's lives.
I called it the site, because that was the common theme in all the notes.
Sometimes you don't need technical skills. You just need a blurry idea and the willingness to figure it out. May we all get courage from moments like these and get a nudge to be kinder to one another.
Dolly Parton reminded people what generosity looks like. The outpouring of notes proved how deeply that generosity landed.
Let her example be the nudge you needed today.
