THANKS

photo by Ian Sane

Happy Memorial Day weekend!  A royally worthy celebration.  This video warms my heart.  Remembering the sacrifice of others, serves to enrich the human soul and the human behavior. 


                                    

Principle in the type:  "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”     attributed to Edmund Burke

HANDS

photo by m o n c h o o h c n o m

Another day, another sad news story.   I am thinking about the love we don't show each other, and the love we do show each other.   We are all God's children.   God's hands.



                                         

Principle in the type:  "God sees you not only as a mortal being on a small planet who lives for a brief season—He sees you as His child.  He sees you as the being you are capable and designed to become.   He wants you to know that you matter to Him."     Dieter F. Uchtdorf

                                                                                        Happy Weekend, my friends

A HAND UP

photo by 99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Photographers

Remember when Blake Shelton saved some good ol' country teen boys from the muddy pickle they and their truck were stuck in?   Sir, out neighborly-like "rescuing strangers from dangerous" situations when you come across 'em, is what we call being a good cowpoke.      news       

Principle in the type:  "The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident."   Charles Lamb

RISING TO THE TOP

photo by Kira Westland

Babies aren't always bringing up the rear.  Sometimes they are in the lead!  Wowing "top brass in two recent interviews," Sean McVay at just 30 years of age was hired as head coach by the Los Angeles Rams, "making him the youngest head coach in N.F.L. history."      story           

Principle in the type:  "Our opportunities to shine are limitless.  They surround us each day, in whatever circumstance we find ourselves."     Thomas S. Monson

TOYLAND

photo by Graham Dean

Hall of Fame toys include Super Soakers, swings, Big Wheels, baby dolls, skateboards, Easy-Bake Ovens, and Legos.   Get or give any of these this holiday?  Personally we enjoyed (kinda?) something Nerf'y that shot and annoyed incoming family all day.   Classic.       story

Principle in the type:  "The only gift is a portion of thyself."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

CHRISTMASTIME CHEER

photo by Tagosaku

Late on their payments and generally in debt, an elderly couple in Illinois had their car repossessed.  But parked around the corner with the car, repo man Jim Ford called the bank and paid them up to current.  The gesture made him think of his own grandparents.  Ultimately donations paid off the car in full.  "We raised most of it in the first eight hours," said Ford.   Just a good ol'fashioned feel good story.  Thank you, Illinois.       story           

Principle in the type:  "Doing good is a pleasure, a joy beyond measure."    Hymn

WADDLE IMPROVED

photo by Craig Murphy

Okay, the Craigslist sold printer story left a sour taste in your mouth, right?  I know.  Let's leave on a high note regarding printers, okay?  What if printers can make wittle ducky feet?  Feel better?  
Using a 3D printer, Wisconsin middle school teacher Jason Jischke and his class, took "six weeks of trial and error," but were able to make prosthetic feet just right, for a duck that had lost its feet to frostbite.     story      

Principle in the type:  "You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago."      Unknown

PAGING DR. HEIMLICH

photo by WmJR

Last week 96-year-old retired surgeon Dr. Henry Heimlich (credited with developing the namesake Heimlich maneuver), saved Patty Ris--who was choking on her food--using, you know, the same said maneuver.   Ris is a co-resident at the same Cincinnati senior living center Heimlich lives in.     news               

Principle in the type:  "Each new day is an opportunity to bind ourselves to act according to what we know."     Jo N. Jepsen 

FLOW

photo by lovelyinlatoo

I don't know what to be:  Thrilled by the volunteers cleaning out the L.A. River, or disgusted by the truck loads of trash and filth pulled from the L.A. River.  You wouldn't believe what I've seen.  The clean-up sponsored by the Friends of the L.A. River is scheduled "over three consecutive Saturdays in the month of April."   Some are mess makers.  Some are mess cleaner uppers.    news        

Principle in the type:  "We may act by giving our time and talents, a kind word, or a strong back.  As we seek and see, we will be placed in circumstances and situations where we can act and bless."     W. Christopher Waddell

BERNARDINO

photo by Chuck Coker

Since the Dec. 2nd terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino California, their offices have received hundreds and hundreds of letters and cards ... banners, posters, and emails.    " 'I don't know of any other word to describe it other than amazing,' said Trudy Raymundo, director of the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, on Monday."  Commented fellow director Corwin Porter, "It's one of the bright spots that has kept our spirits up a lot through these times - the outpouring of concern and love and support."         news
           

Principle in the type:  "Service to others deepens and sweetens this life while we are preparing to live in a better world.  It is by serving that we learn how to serve.  When we are engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them, but we put our own problems in a fresher perspective.  When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves.     Spencer W. Kimball