Orchids to …
• a less germ-filled world when we come out of this pandemic.
• Pastor Teike at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church for his sermon on listening and seeking to understand.
• those who wear a mask.
• Lisa Sara Shannon and Virginia for making my birthday so special, from Jill Cashen.
• Steve and Ann Heimann for blessing me with their friendship, love, support through the years, from Kathy.
• the two gentlemen for stopping at the stop sign, actually putting their foot down and stopping.
• Jim at the local station for playing the song that is so appropriate for our times today.
Onions to …
• the federal elected official for going forward with legal action to eliminate the Affordable Care Act in the middle of a pandemic and recession.
• the disgruntled political party with nothing nice to say about the federal elected official but supporting those burning down businesses, tearing down statues and looting stores.
• the unconscionable groups using fear and intimidation to sway the way you vote in November.
• canceling all of 2020 because of the virus but still having a softball tourney.
• people not wearing masks in public, often in the big box stores, and to store managers allowing entry to those not wearing masks.
• the cancel culture.
• those who choose to wear a mask and live in fear of a cold virus.
• selfishness when it comes to not wearing a mask, by claiming First Amendment and or personal rights, which could cause someone to die.
• those who prefer the policies of Mussolini to the policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
• the city wanting to shut down the golf course when it says on its sign “Enriching Lives and Building Community!”
• people who park in the street in a small neighborhood who refuse to use their driveway and garage for parking.
• the federal elected official and his administration for doing nothing about Russians paying the Taliban a bounty to kill our soldiers.
• the local leaders not requiring masks when entering a store.
• people not wearing masks, I bet you wear your seat belts, don’t you?
• insurance companies not charging those who refuse to wear a mask at the same rate as people who smoke and refusing to cancel their policy.
• the federal elected official saying it’s very encouraging news that infection increases were mostly among people under age 35 — shouldn’t it only be encouraging if they were decreasing?
• the federal elected official who is dismantling the Constitution and the office every day.
• the federal leader who apparently finds time to tweet a “white power” video, but not to receive an intelligence briefing on Russian bounties for U.S. soldiers.
• not having more guardrails when going up the hill eastbound on the railroad overpass.
• people who blame the cause of their weight and digestive problems on everything but the true cause of it, the way they eat.
• drivers who speed up and down Griffa Avenue where kids are playing and riding bicycles in the neighborhood.
Happy Birthday to …
• Keith Bode from your family, Diana Sue and Donna.
• Lily Turner, love your family.
• Keith Bode, from Bob, Jeri, and Rose.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
