Good people are everywhere. We may despair sometimes, but we see frequent evidence in our lives of the goodness of the human spirit. This recent story came from the Toronto Star: “A Toronto couple is unlikely to forget a perfect family wedding in San Francisco not only because it was such a joyous occasion but because of what happened afterward.After a pleasant lunch and some ice cream in a Sausalito park on Sunday, Saied Khalili, a Toronto dentist, inadvertently left behind on the bench a Louis Vuitton bag.

It happened to contain about $1 million worth of jewellery and valuables belonging to his wife, Shahla Ghannadian. There was a 12-karat diamond ring, pearl and emerald jewellery, a Cartier watch, $500 in Canadian and American cash, not to mention that the bag was a Louis Vuitton.

Miraculously for them, however, John Suhrhoff, a local respiratory therapist who had just finished a weekend hike at the park, found the bag and turned it in to the police.

But for almost a full day, the family wouldn’t know that the bag had been found because they had to leave, after filing a police report, to catch the flight back to Toronto.

“We feel very joyful, both because my mom got her family (jewellery) back, but more importantly because there are still people like that guy who found the purse,” said the couple’s son, Ali Khalili, 28, last night.

Khalili, a pediatric resident, said his parents, who moved to Canada from Iran 10 years ago, were still basking in the aftermath of his sister’s wedding when the bag got lost.

The flight back to Toronto was a quiet one and had some awkward moments, he recalled.”