I was preparing to interview Marist Alumni Business Exchange MABEX creator Dennis Samson at an outdoor cafe, Figaro Coffee Sta. Lucia East Brickroad, when Dennis noticed a child feeding the fishes in the pond. Concerned for the safety of the child and for the ecology of the pond, he searched for a security guard to disengage the child from her play. Finding none available he approached the child and took it upon himself to teach the child to be safe and not to feed the swimming creatures, "you might fall in the water; and don't feed the goldfishes because if they get full, they won't eat the mosquitoes anymore."
Praise God for tender hearts like Dennis'; I can only bask in the optimism that his kindness will imprint upon this child that she, too, in her mature years will show the same concern for the younger generation, remembering that once she met a stranger who cared enough to tenderly teach her to be safe and to leave the fishes alone in their natural diet of wrigglers.
My impression of Dennis' gentleness was further confirmed with his profound insights in my interview of him regarding his objectives as Marist Alumni Business Exchange creator. Kudos Dennis Samson (Marist 89).
