At this point, Marilyn Mock is well known for her generosity. For those who missed this news item in the election frenzy, I will recount it briefly here. Ms. Mock went to a real estate auction in Dallas in late October to help her son buy his first home. During the bidding on another property, she saw a woman crying in the audience, unusual at a real estate auction, and asked her what had happened. It turns out that Tracy Orr had lost her house to foreclosure and had come to the auction because the home was central to her life; she needed to see it go and get some closure on it. Ms. Mock decided to bid on the house so that Ms. Orr could live in it again. The two sat together as she did and purchased the house for just under $30,000. When the bidding was over, the distraught Orr had disappeared. Ms. Mock found her in the hallway, and so did a local news team. Since then she has been on Good Morning America and has been approached by bookers from the Oprah, Ellen, and Dr. Phil shows.

Marilyn Mock: "People need to help each other and that's all there is to it."

What interests me about this is how Ms. Mock acted and then reacted to all of the attention. I am sorry I cannot put the video right in this posting, but you can click on the link to see her in the video. Tracy Orr is upset and moved in the video. Ms. Mock is smiling and hugs Orr warmly. She will hold the mortgage and Orr will pay her; she has jumped into a relationship with this complete stranger. What is interesting to me is that, from all appearances she acts as if she has done nothing unusual, nothing out of character from the fabric of her life. After the hug Marilyn Mock and her son turned away and walked down the hallway as if changing someone’s life was just a normal errand, while they were out.