Small Things Count

This is amazing–a word I don’t use very often.  Watch how music can transform the burden of walking for a person with Parkinson’s Disease into a pleasurable experience.  The human mind is, well…AMAZING!

Saturday was National Independent Bookstores Day. It was successful for me because I met other local authors, got to promote Booksmart in Morgan Hill CA (great small bookstore), enjoy a slightly chilly but nice Spring day, and even sold a bunch of books. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SMALL BOOKSTORE! And check out my latest book at https://smthingscount.com/women-in-me/. It’s available at any online bookstore in print and eBook.

“Cabrini” is a marvelous film! it’s about the first US saint, but it isn’t a religious movie–no praying nuns or miracles. It’s about a strong woman who refused to take NO for an answer when, despite her own illness, she fought poverty, New York’s Italian immigrant bigotry, politicians, the Church, even the Pope himself as she worked for human dignity.

This is a logic question, not political. Why is the Supreme Court even considering whether a President has absolute immunity? If he does, doesn’t that contradict Art. II Sect. 4 which says a President can be removed from office for “high crimes & misdemeanors”? Doesn’t that mean a POTUS is NOT immune?

Celebrate our beautiful planetary home today. Take a walk with your family through a park. Sit in your garden and enjoy the color and fragrances around you. Think about small things you can do to protect and preserve the Earth. To get you started, go to an online eBook provider like Smashwords and download a FREE copy of my book, Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget.

[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).

With so much violence, division, hatred, personal attacks, and general negativity going on in my country and world, I needed today’s Thursday Thought quote. And so I pass it on to you.

We’re in the middle of Earth Month. It’s a great time to celebrate our one-and-only home and work toward protecting it from ourselves.

“Failure to address climate change could leave future generations with an unimaginable financial burden – around $500,000 in extra costs to a baby born this year, a new study commissioned by Consumer Reports has found.” Read this interesting and eye-opening Consumer Reports article at https://action.consumerreports.org/nb-20240405-ccccsignup?utm_campaign=nb_20240411_ccccemailblast&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cr

My brain is tired of trying to solve big political, geo-political, environmental, and social problems.  So, today lets contemplate questions that some might think trivial–yea, even silly.  But don’t all questions deserve at least attempted answers?

Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned? What if my dog only brings back my ball because he thinks I like throwing it? If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous? Which letter is silent in the word “Scent,” the S or the C? Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn’t it be called double V?