Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I'm reading a memoir by Alice Waters that a friend lent me.  I want something far removed from this violent, harmful culture that we live in, and from the senseless deaths in Las Vegas and the impotent posturing in Washington, D.C.  This is about food and the love of creating meals for family and friends, and she is one year older than me, lives in my town and went to my University.  I want a respite from the darker side of humans.  She was an ordinary girl in every way, and she became extraordinary by luck, chance and grit.  I like the stories of ordinary heroes.  There are many all around us, and some them saved others in Las Vegas.  Ordinary is real, good and possible.  We don't need fame and attention like the President seems to, we just do the right thing, big and little, one moment at a time.