Perspectives

Dolly Parton once told her sister, “We’ve got more important things to do than worry about their silly asses.” It may be one of the wisest statements ever made about time, attention, and the difference between caring deeply and being endlessly consumed by foolishness.

Dolly Parton was sweet and sexy, plainspoken and bedazzled, deeply feminine and strong as a steel trap. Perhaps we loved her because she never asked us to choose which version was real. All of them were.