Archive for June 15, 2019

Free Trees for Your Community

June 15, 2019 Comments Off on Free Trees for Your Community

Trees, nature’s air purifiers, are inexpensive and easy to plant.  In my area (San Jose), there’s an organization called Our City Forest. It helps people choose the right tree for their location, demonstrates how to plant it, and gives it to to the person for free (donation requested).  If the person is older or disabled, they’ll even send out someone to plant it for them.

Does your community have such an organization? If not, propose it. See Our City Forest details at www.ourcityforest.org so you can offer your city some information about how a successful program can operate.

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Heat Illness in Pets

June 14, 2019 Comments Off on Heat Illness in Pets

Many of us are suffering from the high heat. But we’re not the only ones. So are our pets. The National Weather Service put out this chart to remind us of the symptoms to watch for in our pets so we can take measures to get them cooled off and avoid heat illness. They ARE our responsibility, and they depend on us.

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What’s in a Choice?

June 13, 2019 Comments Off on What’s in a Choice?

Today’s Thursday Thought speaks for itself.

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So, What’s With Torture?

June 12, 2019 Comments Off on So, What’s With Torture?

June is Torture Awareness Month. It happens throughout the world, carried out by many governments, including our own. We can be shocked by it while still condoning it. Even in fraternity houses, where torture is a right of passage into the brotherhood. (Like with the young man who was put into a cold area, sprayed with cold water, and made to drink gallons of water–to the point of hypothermia.)

It’s obviously against U.S. law and morality to torture people we want to get information out of.  Yet the art of torture has been perfected over the decades in places like Guantanamo. Obviously our nation must stop this inhumane practice.

We can still get what we want, though.  Just send prisoners to college and make them rush a fraternity.  The fraternity hazing process will achieve our government’s ends but not really be torture.  After all, unlike torture, hazing is all in good fun.  And if it goes a tad too far, well, we all know that boys will be boys. Or so the thinking goes.

We can still get what we want, though.  Just send prisoners to college and make them rush a fraternity.  The fraternity hazing process will achieve our government’s ends but not really be torture.  After all, unlike torture, hazing is all in good fun.  And if it goes a tad too far, well, we all know that boys will be boys. Or so the thinking goes.

Torture is torture. It’s wrong, immoral, cruel, not a game, and yields no good.

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Cure for Snoring

June 11, 2019 Comments Off on Cure for Snoring

(Warning: Silliness to follow. It’s too hot to be serious today.)

Does your bed partner snore? Are you tired of being sleepless because of it? This cartoon shows a possible cure.

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“I DO”–Now Get Started on a Family!

June 10, 2019 Comments Off on “I DO”–Now Get Started on a Family!

One of the first things a newlywed couple is asked is, “When are you going to start having kids?” It’s seldom, “Do you plan to have kids?” This is, after all, a personal choice. Yet our society tends to think of childless couples as incapable of producing a child or selfish or giving up happiness and a more secure old age.

Why aren’t millennials having kids? 8 insights into the child-free life debunks eight of these perceptions. It’s an interesting viewpoint from the non-parents’ point of view. Take a look.

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A Pencil that Grow into a Plant

June 8, 2019 Comments Off on A Pencil that Grow into a Plant

Here’s a fun way to dispose of no-longer-usable pencils without disposing of them. Huh? Well, you have to have a certain kind of pencil (Sprout). But check out this video. I hope it “grows” on you as much as it did on me. All I can do is “plant” the idea in your head.

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Fun for Word-Lovers

June 7, 2019 Comments Off on Fun for Word-Lovers

I’m in a playful, punny mood. If you aren’t, stop reading.

Lexophile describes those that have a love for words, such as “you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish,” or “To write with a broken pencil is pointless.” An annual competition is held by the New York Times to see who can create the best original lexophile. This year’s winning submission is posted at the very end.

No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.If you don’t pay your exorcist, you can get repossessed.
I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can’t put it down.
I didn’t like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.
Did you hear about the crossed-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn’t control her pupils?
When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
When chemists die, they barium.
I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me.
I changed my iPod’s name to Titanic. It’s syncing now.
England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.
Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.
This girl today said she recognized me from the Vegetarians Club, but I’d swear I’ve never met herbivore.
I know a guy who’s addicted to drinking brake fluid, but he says he can stop any time.
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.
I got some batteries that were given out free of charge.
A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
A will is a dead giveaway.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
Police were summoned to a daycare center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
A bicycle can’t stand alone; it’s just two tired.
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine last week has now fully recovered.
He had a photographic memory but it was never fully developed.When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye.
Acupuncture is a jab well done. That’s the point of it.
Those who get too big for their pants will be totally exposed in the end.        

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Sign of the Times (I Wish)

June 6, 2019 Comments Off on Sign of the Times (I Wish)

A friend sent me this picture of a sign displayed at a gathering she attended. I don’t care what the agenda of the gathering was. I just really like the sign and hope I live to see it come true. Here’s today’s Thursday Thought.

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An Important Lesson for Our Children

June 5, 2019 Comments Off on An Important Lesson for Our Children

Today commemorates D-Day, the largest military action attempted back in 1944. It was successful. But so many lives were lost. And it didn’t end wars. This day makes me think about peace and how we achieve it. I believe that a more peaceful world begins with our children, who will be the caretakers of the future. And with us, their current caretakers.

We can teach them peace in simple ways. Avoid video games, TV programs, and movies that glorify war, violence, torture, and destruction. As parents, we can be an example by working out disagreements without our engaging in a shouting match and certainly without hitting each other. In fact, even hitting or punching each other in jest sends a message to a child that violence is a game. We can find something specific to do when we or our children get very angry, whether it’s listening to soothing music, reading a book, or sitting quietly in a special spot in the garden. Although no single negative action will necessarily create a violent person, replacing any one of them with a positive action heads a child toward a more serene adulthood.

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