Shh? No! Speak up!

but one from the heart. . .

Started a new category: Make a difference, so need to add it to some that already apply, why I don’t think of these things sooner????

Today’s make a difference:

Cards to nursing home and assisted living facilities (A.L.F.). I know, nothing new, but how many of us think or bother to do it? I put it off so long I forgot it until 55-Alive! reminded its members of the 55-Alive! team to write out and post in our ‘about section” our goals to make a difference both for ourselves and for our communities. So, now that it is in writing both there and here. I will remember to make it part of my week. I will put it on the schedule I have yet to write in my attempt to be more organized and not live so much by the proverbial seat of my pants!

Plan A - Part 1

When Rite-Aid has a sale on photo development, I will upload some of my better Washington photos, maybe a Florida one or two, have lots copies made, get the card blanks that have the little slits that allows photos as the cover, write a little poem or note, hand sign them, and deliver them by mail or by hand to the office. Ideally, I would like to put names on them, but with all the new privacy laws, I’ll have to wait and see what info I can get, I would be happy with at least first names. (Eventually, I would like to tailor the card to the person, but that is not a reality now.)

Plan A Part 2

Include flyer I made on Color A Smile for the owner/manager so they are aware they can have drawings mailed to their facility for free for the residents to enjoy. Suggest they also post it where visitors can see it so perhaps their children or grandchildren can join in the fun!

Plan B

Get off my lazy duff (or just find the file and push print!). Print the said flyer in multiple copies, verify the names of those in charge at the local elementary and preschools (that’s where I bogged down last school year!) and mail said flyers to them in hopes of a coloring frenzy in school (even if only one day).

Now, that’s my plan, feel free to join in, either my plan, the man across the hall’s, the woman next door’s, or, fancy that, your own! And while you’re at it, if you are NOT a procrastinator, but a get it done now kind of person, feel free to give me a gentle shove (reminder, not literal) next week!

Have a great day y’all!

This blog was not being indexed correctly by Technorati and their support was getting slammed, some people I read got answered quickly, I was getting shoved down the line. I rechecked their support info and found they had a recent sticky post about the same problem and it gave instructions how to put the ticket in properly for that problem. Wham, the next day (after 3 weeks the first two tickets combined) fixed, crawling indexing it and a gracious apology email. So, now my blog has worth in the fictional blogging world.

So, thank you Technorati for both the repair and the pleasant email.

For the record Washington weather is warmer than it normally is in late July. . . (Remember I ran from Florida to get away from heat.) The sun is as bright as a Florida sky, the breeze seems to have run away to play elsewhere, it is really a gorgeous day though. I know the weather is not this perfect everywhere. All I can say is, don’t stay in a climate you hate like I did all those years, you can’t get those years back!

Poetry.
My newest blog.
The first entry explains.

Ok, so we (you, me, her, him, those people over there) blog for different reasons, so some of them are occasionally selfish. So what if we whine sometimes or rant or make a few errors. . . (OK, we should all be ashamed of ourselves for not proofing better.)

We, the collective we, if nothing else, leave our mark on the universe.

We share our thoughts and whether they seem superficial, secretive, or well thought out, they evoke thought in others and sometimes conversations among people.

We teach.

We entertain.

We bridge gaps between people.

We bring discovery to people’s lives.

We bring empathy to the masses.

We bring sympathy.

We encourage.

We bring smiles and laughter.

We give ourselves and others permission to be who they are.

We are catalysts to new thoughts, new jobs, new hobbies.

We evoke emotions so people feel alive.

Bloggers, you are worth more to the universe than you realize. . .

And, yeah. . . we don’t all do all of that in our blogs, but we all do at least one of them. . . and one really is enough.

Bloggers Rock!