Leave the world a better place than I found it

I want to raise awareness about the improtance of bike helmets, since last year I could have died or gone into a coma or had a concussion or something serious like that when I fell off my bike (down a hill so it was really fast).

Today I gave and received many ‘Hello’ greetings, smiles… I helped a lady in Kroger get yogurt from the top shelf of the refrigerator- in the parking lot, exchanged words with a family who was locked out of their car and waiting for help. It has been a great day and doing little things to lighten someone’s load or add a smile to their day is always uplifting ;)

When I walked up to the truck, the guy asked, “Gee is that for me?”

I told him, “Of course it is, just for you!”

“That makes me feel special,” he added

“Believe it, you are special,” I said. One of the other workers teased, look, she’s blushing… she’s got great dimples.

We were all smiling as I walked off~

We were in an arcade, having a ton of fun, by the way ;) After David and Kayla won cups, overflowing with tickets… they gave them away. As we were talking about leaving, they handed them to little kids who were just entering the Midway. The looks on those kids faces were priceless!

It was great to see my kids giving~

i spent a lot of time growing up pondering on what i would be when i grew up, what i wanted to be, what i didn’t want to be. something that didn’t make any of those lists was role model, yet here we are. pinned to the wall over my monitor, frozen in a moment, are the child-like faces of three people who i have had the liberty to watch grow into puberty. the first people who i had to catch myself from addressing “i remember when you were this big” and talk about them in the third person with words like “they grow up so fast”. they watch me more than i’d like and it’s only when they emulate me that i think i might not be the upstanding citizen i believe myself to be. i feel so incompetent when i can’t help them, as i watch them grow and realize and discover. ashley is only just now coming to grips with femininity and sexuality, and directly on her heels are her brothers. they don’t like each other, but they love each other, they fight and make up and scream and try not to cry. they’ve learned shame.

i would make this world perfect for them.

purpose. my single greatest obsession which leads to my single biggest question which i fear will ultimately be my undoing and failure. i tell myself that what i do, more importantly, what i believe i can do well, is helpful, is good, is worth doing. that there is little else i am capable of that will satisfy the unknown, implicit contract i signed by crying when i hurt and bleeding when i am cut, for living. i cannot believe that we are all here because of one chance meeting of two unfamliar molecules. i am committed to working collectively, with their knowledge or without, with their conset or without, with others to work effectively towards revealing the good in this universe, and letting it grow. i hope, selfishly, that what i have a talented predelection of doing will help, that because i can, and can well, is telling in its conception absolutely. but subtracting from this everyting that i think i know, all i am left with, as usual, is the hope that i might be right, and good, and not arbitrary. my sin is vanity, i think.

throw in a few of the same coins (0.25, 1.00 or whatever) while they are not looking, or even if they are.

how far words of encouragement go… I was reflecting on messages and cards I’ve been given over the years. They carried me far, so as much as I can, I’ll do the same.

or just for those more senior than you.

Be patient for the elders and don’t allow them to let you off easily if they say, “you don’t have to wait for me, I’m slow.”

Picked up more than 10 but fewer than 20 discarded items and put them in the garbage bin today.

What about a new acronym to replace OPGAD (One Piece of Garbage A Day) to modernize this movement of picking up litter to make our environment a little cleaner?

Subscribers, need your help with this! Please express your opinion on these suggestions or suggest your own:

1) APPLE as in A Piece of Plonk Left Erroneously. Then we could borrow the phrase, “an APPLE a day” and gift that phrase with double meaning! Woooooooooooo! Double entendre, how cool is that?

2) OOTPOGA could mean One Or Ten Pieces Of Garbage Anytime.
Wow, that one could be used in a chant, as in “OOT-po-ga! There it is! OOT-po-ga there it is” Yes… the possibility of that spreading like a virus is clearly a foregone conclusion.

But don’t let my editorial comments prejudice your choice ;-)