There are lots of stories about people helping people deal with this pandemic, but this one struck me. Hannah Lucas in Maine literally goes the extra mile…so do her mush dogs. Read Mush! Dog Team Delivers Supplies To Elderly Residents Shut In By Virus.
Will you be driving to the post office just before midnight tonight? Facing a long line of traffic at the drop-off box? And everyone grumbling and complaining? In honor of TAX DAY, this week I move my Thursday Thought quote to Monday, April 15. It’s a gentle reminder of what we’re paying for.
“I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There needs to be an addition to the inscription on the General Post Office on 8th Ave. and 33rd St. in New York City (no, it isn’t the Postal Service’s motto–they don’t have one). Keep what’s there but add four words so that it would read, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor White House security stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” It’s the least we can do to honor the spirit of 61-year-old Florida mailman and gyro-copter pilot Douglas Mark Hughes.