Paul Merrill
Over the weekend a package arrived. A friend sent me a Kindle e-Book reader. He gave it to me as a gift.
Amazing. I was and am totally blown away by his kindness!
This was completely undeserved.
Takeaway: What ways can you show kindness to someone this week?
I wrote today’s post over at Jon’s 300 words a day blog. I hope you enjoy reading about how God loves fast and slow.
Some things just should not be combined. Orville and M&M might be a little misguided.
What things have you seen lately that should not be combined?
Rachel has the collector gene. I know it. Heather knows it.
These reading glasses broke recently. To avoid her keeping them for an unknown art project to come, I skipped the step that might come a few years down the line and quietly put them in my nearby waste basket.
Yes, you can call me mean, but since she doesn’t read this blog (yet), she won’t hear you. I’m just helping her fight our dreaded collector gene.
Update: check out the comments. Value added – and changed thinking – are reflected there.
Today marks 21 years together. We do not take this for granted. We count it as a blessing that is beyond what we deserve.
Thank you Heather!
And an update – just a link to a post talking about how to show love – no matter what kind of a relationship you’re in.
During a short family vacation, Rachel and I climbed Mt. Cameron – her first “14er” – that’s a peak 14,000′ above sea level. To be exact, it’s 14,239 ft. or 4,340 m. At age 9, Rachel beat her brother Jay, who has climbed seven of them – because he got his first one at age 15.
The rest of the family? They had already gone to climb a few more adjacent peaks.
Celestial Seasonings is great.
By not including tags with their tea bags, they (claim to) have saved 3.5 million pounds (1.6 m kilos) of waste from entering landfills every year. That’s amazing!
That sort of environmental responsibility is worthy of being imitated by others. What examples have you seen of actions with seemingly small effect – but that end up having a large effect?
This mobile phone is maybe just five years old. I think it’s pretty cool. But it’s no longer useful – just more ephemera.
Thankfully, it will be getting a second life. The organization I work for has a program to recycle them and use the resulting profits for good.
Sort of off-topic… I think mobile phones are getting too big. Yes, I like having a keyboard for texting, but I miss when they were as small as this one. (It folds to half the size you see in my hand.)
At the moment, car dealerships are closed on Sundays in Colorado. (For my friends outside the USA, laws on these things vary from state to state.)
I think that’s a great thing.
The mechanics, sales people, managers, and parts experts all get one day to spend with their family. Or their dog. Or their television.
We all need a rest.
A few years back, Colorado changed their liquor laws such that stores are now open on Sundays. Shortly after that, I asked a checkout clerk if the change had made any increase in their sales. He said no – but that the business just got redistributed over seven days instead of six.
Sad. Now the store owners have to pay more salaries and electricity bills. For no gain except to keep up with the store down the street.
I’d love to turn back the tide. But I don’t see that happening anytime soon. At least the car dealerships’ lobby has some sanity left.
This tower of public notices stands in downtown Boulder, Colorado – the home of a university with more than 30,000 students. Most of the posters are for live music events.
Did you notice that all of them look more or less the same?
How hard would it be to design a poster with catchy full-color photo surrounded by a significantly large white border ? Or maybe a 98% black poster with just a tiny bit of white type in the center? Then just put one on top of about every fifth standard poster. Those would stand out.
Takeaway: Let’s think outside the box, my friends.
