Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, and Karl Malden...Wow, how sad, how close, how soon. We have lost so many so soon, so recently. It really causes one's head to spin. I find myself saying, How sad, when up pops another one. It just goes to show how very precious life is and how nothing is promised so we do have to make the most of each day. My heart and Prayers go out to the loved ones of each of the persons whom have named and I hope that each of them has gone on to a better place.

Another gorgeous Spring day. I am going to get spoiled . But I want to jot something down, while I am thinking about it, before it slips away (again). I'd like to talk about kindness and consideration for a moment. Earlier this morning, something ran across the bottom of the television screen, in that ticker tape way that information does. To be honest, I can't remember what it even was, though I'm sure it will come to me shortly, I just know that I remember saying, "Oh wow how cool. I need to share this with someone." So I thought of the 2 people whom it would interest the most and looked at the clock. I figured one would be working out at the gym and the other would either be at work, on the way, or just leaving home. (They both live in other states). So I decided to call the 2nd one. The phone rang a couple of times and I was greeted with a "Growl" of, "I'm drrrrriving, what?" Well I apologized and explained that I only wanted to share something I had just seen on TV and that it would only take a moment. I told them what it was and hurriedly hung up. That got me to thinking...

We really have become a strange little society of busy, multi-tasking, each man in his own world selves, sometimes. I couldn't see through the phone, as I am so fond of saying, so I would have no way of knowing what someone was doing until they told me, but it's not so much "What a we do, as How we do it," and there is a way to let someone know that you are busy without a loud growl. I mean, I got the growl before I even had the chance to ask, "Ya got a sec?" I pride myself in being courtesy and I generally ask if a person is busy, for that reason. Oh well. I did give 'em Hell later and told them that I can not see through a phone so give me a break and if you are busy don't answer and call when you can talk or don't be so grumpy when ya do answer. We laughed it off later. But people remember this, "We are all busy and trying to survive these days, so let's try and be a bit kinder and more tolerant of others and not so caught up in our own little worlds that we don't have empathy for others.

Have A Great One!