Dollar Store Books And Giving Back
The Dear Wonderful Hubby purchased a bunch of children’s books at a nearby Dollar Store and I’ve been restocking the neighborhood Little Free Library with them.
You might be thinking,
‘The books cost $1. People can buy those books for themselves.’
First thing, the Dollar Store is now the One Dollar And Twenty-Five Cents Store.
(grins)
Inflation is a kicker.
And, when I was a kid, my Awesome Mom couldn’t spare $1 for awesome things like books. We didn’t always eat. That $1 was much needed for food and other life essentials.
So yes, Dollar Store books freely given to people DO make a difference. They’ll give people joy.
And isn’t it amazing that we can make others happy with $1.25?
(smiles)
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Ripples From Little Acts Of Good
A visitor to our neighborhood remarked on how trash-free it was compared to other neighborhoods. He thought the city was sending people to our neighborhood to clean it and was quite irate that they didn’t send people to HIS neighborhood.
I told him the truth.
RESIDENTS pick up the trash in our neighborhood.
I, for example, every couple of days, take a little grocery bag and spend five minutes picking up trash.
Which doesn’t seem like a lot.
Except other residents see me (or other people) doing that and THEY then spend five minutes picking up trash also.
And people, seeing us picking up the trash, are less likely to drop their trash on the ground. They are more likely to deposit their trash in a nearby bin.
And that is why we have a fairly trash-free neighborhood.
You don’t have to take BIG actions to change your corner of the universe. Little acts, especially done often, create ripples and can result in significant change.
Take a little act today!
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If You Want The Butterflies…
This massive caterpillar munched his way through half of a taller-than-me mini tomato plant. I hope to see more Laurel Sphinx moths this year due to our hosting of him.
(smiles)
One of the things I often say to fellow gardeners is “If you want the butterflies, you have to feed the caterpillars.”
Caterpillars nibble on the leaves of our plants. They make the roses in our front yard, for example, look a bit ragged. They don’t kill the rose plants (the birds and yellowjackets ensure their population doesn’t become large enough to do that) but the plants aren’t the prettiest.
And the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are okay with that.
Because we love butterflies. And hosting caterpillars is the best way to ensure we have butterflies.
This is true of many things in life. To achieve a wonderful result, we have to deal with the ugly, the hard, the strenuous.
To have a published book, we need to write every single word. To have friends, we have to interact with people. Often. To be have a trash-free neighborhood, we have to pick up the trash.
Dream of the world you want.
Then do that hard work, the ugly work to make that dream a reality.
You can do this!
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