Small Things Count

The National Recycling Coalition lists the top 10 items to recycle: aluminum, PET plastic bottles, newspaper, corrugated cardboard, steel cans, HDPE plastic bottles, glass containers, magazines, mixed paper, and computers.

[For more easy, money-saving, Eco-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7000, choose a format, and download to your computer or e-book device. For a description of the book go to My Free Books).

These so-called presidential candidate “debates” really have torn at my ex-debate-coach heart. These have been merely childish, rude arguments and cut-downs. Any high school debate that was run this way would be suspended from the debate league until they came up to high school standards. If these fiascoes are going to be called “debates,” let them be carried out in the spirit and rule of actual debates, in which views on serious matters are discussed intelligently and the moderators maintain control toward that end. Otherwise they’re useless to us voters.

For today’s Thursday Thought, let’s look at who we associate with.

“Surround yourself with people who talk about visions and ideas, not other people.” — Unknown

Before a roofer caused a leak resulting in major damage inside my house so I had to move out and be half-crazy, I was giving you a weekly peek at a chapter of my book The Women in Me: How they helped Me Survive and Thrive. I’d like to go back to that on Wednesdays. You can learn more about the authors, book, and where to get it by going to https://smthingscount.com/women-in-me/ and see short summaries of Ch. 1-7 in my earlier postings here. Onward…

Ch 8 Looking for Love (in All the Wrong Places): The groups not giving her what she was looking for, this inexperienced dater lets loose with a variety of men. Her experiences range from party-people to hippies, from disappointing to humorous. Finally, she realizes that she has been ignoring her Influencers, yet they were at work within her.

September is National Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month. Here are some other alarming facts:

Celebrate and give recognition to all workers!

Expensive, earth-UNfriendly deoderants–something smells bad about that. But what can you do–if you want to live up-close in society?  Easy.  Here’s an alternative natural deodorant: apple cider vinegar.  Apply it directly to your armpits to kill body odor. It doesn’t have the eco-unfriendly chemicals found in packaged deodorant and is a lot less costly.

[For more easy, money-saving, Eco-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7000, choose a format, and download to your computer or e-book device. For a description of the book go to My Free Books).

Anxiety can be a harsh reality for just about anyone anytime. For some people, it’s a constant thing in their lives. Yet people often dismiss it with comments that are harmful, comments that make the anxiety worse or the person feel inadequate and depressed. Casey Cark’s Huffpost article “The Rudest Things People Can Say To Someone with Anxiety” provides six things people say that are wounding: 1) It’s all in your head. Stop worrying so much. 2) Calm down. 3) At least you don’t have it as bad as…. 4) Just power through it. 5) You just need to sleep/exercise/pray more. 6) It’s not a big deal.

Words really do matter.