Hello Fellow Travelers!
Once again I was composing a hard-hitting expose on Brain Cancer (This Week: Brain Cancer in North Korea: Someone should look into that.!) And then this happened: I was watching (listening to) CNN and they were reporting yet another story someplace in the frozen east about the frozen east.
The story turned out to be about a teenager riding in a car with his mother when he spotted a senior shoveling snow. The gentleman had a walker and was really struggling with the snow when the "Paying it Forward" teen asked his proud mother to pull over so the kid could shovel the snow for the grateful senior.
It was heartwarming as all get out too! The self sacrificing teen, his helpful impulse, the heavy snow, the "Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field" (wait, that's from the "Lombardi Story"! Well, you can bet something was frozen). Brain cancer sucks but being cold, I mean really icy, is really dangerous too!
So it warms this cynics heart to see a well-raised, thoughtful teen giving back to his community.
And I'm bored to tears playing "How cold is it "back East"?" "How cold is it? Really cold! We know! Niagara Falls is Frozen! "So glad we don't live there!" I get it! It's cold! Bitter cold. Record-breaking season, thermometer malfunctioning, bone-chilling, teeth-grinding, your nose is always dripping cold! We get it! So knowing that there are generous and thoughtful youths in the community is as inspirational as it is comforting.
Being an unwilling member of the "wheelchair brigade", means my awareness for falling situations has exponentially increased. Ice interests me only inasmuch as it's a safety issue. I fall enough, I don't need any freaking ice to slip on! What's next? Snakes? Bears? Marbles? No, no and no.
I don't require any more examples of how frigid the eastern seaboard is. I get it. I'll get it next week. I do value instances of humans helping other humans. Helpful humans are inspiring to the rest of us.
Especially when "the help" is unprompted and seemingly unrewarded.
Human beings helping other humans? I can be inspired by that all day long!
Once again I was composing a hard-hitting expose on Brain Cancer (This Week: Brain Cancer in North Korea: Someone should look into that.!) And then this happened: I was watching (listening to) CNN and they were reporting yet another story someplace in the frozen east about the frozen east.
The story turned out to be about a teenager riding in a car with his mother when he spotted a senior shoveling snow. The gentleman had a walker and was really struggling with the snow when the "Paying it Forward" teen asked his proud mother to pull over so the kid could shovel the snow for the grateful senior.
It was heartwarming as all get out too! The self sacrificing teen, his helpful impulse, the heavy snow, the "Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field" (wait, that's from the "Lombardi Story"! Well, you can bet something was frozen). Brain cancer sucks but being cold, I mean really icy, is really dangerous too!
So it warms this cynics heart to see a well-raised, thoughtful teen giving back to his community.
And I'm bored to tears playing "How cold is it "back East"?" "How cold is it? Really cold! We know! Niagara Falls is Frozen! "So glad we don't live there!" I get it! It's cold! Bitter cold. Record-breaking season, thermometer malfunctioning, bone-chilling, teeth-grinding, your nose is always dripping cold! We get it! So knowing that there are generous and thoughtful youths in the community is as inspirational as it is comforting.
Being an unwilling member of the "wheelchair brigade", means my awareness for falling situations has exponentially increased. Ice interests me only inasmuch as it's a safety issue. I fall enough, I don't need any freaking ice to slip on! What's next? Snakes? Bears? Marbles? No, no and no.
I don't require any more examples of how frigid the eastern seaboard is. I get it. I'll get it next week. I do value instances of humans helping other humans. Helpful humans are inspiring to the rest of us.
Especially when "the help" is unprompted and seemingly unrewarded.
Human beings helping other humans? I can be inspired by that all day long!
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