The need is real. The statistics are sobering. Right here in one of the most affluent counties in California, maybe even the whole of America, People go without, children are hungry, families need help to put food on the table. Since 1979 the DeAnza Lions have helped to feed the people for the Thanksgiving holiday. …
Lions FEED The People
For 45 years, the Cupertino DeAnza Lions Club has held an annual Thanksgiving food drive. From the beginning to now, we have grown the project to feed about a thousand people each year for the holiday. Here’s how we do it. An empty gathering hall, some good organization and creative thinking by many Lions, and …
LIONS Feed The People, Again
Lions clubs of the world. 1.4 million Lions, 45,000 clubs, +200 countries. Where there’s a need, there are Lions. Here in the Santa Clara Valley, for more than 30 years, feeding over 100 families for Thanksgiving, now up to over 170 families, and through other channels, with the same project, feeling about 1000 people for …
Red Screen
“ Red in the morning, sailors, take warning…”
Word Power: Cut, Nick, or Slice
Recently in cut my right thumb will loading some boxes; didn’t stop bleeding without direct pressure for a long while. Describing the incident later To my kids, I noticed the difference in reaction I got depending on which word are used to describe the action that created the injury. Nick seems the most minimal… it …
Default GRATITUDE
Most days I wake up, I try to start the day of gratitude. That gratitude runs the spectrum, big things small things I just try to focus what I am grateful for, list them out. They can be serious things often times seem to be, big life things, But they are also every day, simpler, …
Sacred Momentos
So the church down the street was the one I grew up in. Sunday School, Teen Club, Altar Server, even Reader a few times. That church community abandoned, and the property was sold. I wanted to grab a couple items from the property before they demo’ed it. Got lucky; got ‘em. Had ‘em in the …
Second Half
Always more to do, piled up, then a pile or two besides, Obligations and commitments and asks and the unexpected, pile upon pile, The “No-Sayer” gets away from most of it, shrewd miser of time and attention, wisdom on display, Not so for this Pleaser-Helper-Doer of things, Game on? Too busy. I’ll have to catch …
No Bones
I try hard to make no bones, no grudges, at work, comes to mind, but really everywhere, No bones, be honest, politely direct but with minimum gripes too, keeping resentments to a minimum, We each have our row to hoe, we each have our skills, motivations, and place in time, Do what we can, when …
Sooth My Soul
For a long time I've listened to Classical Music, decades really. From 30 years back I can recall first finding Classical KDFC 149.9 FM in the SF Bay Area. As I drove around during the day as a courier, and then field sales guy, more often than not, I had that music playing softly, quietly …
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