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Let me start by saying that with the new, full-time job I started last week, I'm still getting the hang of this wacky schedling thing. I've planned to update this blog each weekday morning, but for now it may be a little scattershot. I'll do my best to build it right into my morning routine!
Some of our suggestions for Something Good have fairly far-reaching effects. We’ve talked about donating to charity, volunteering your time and energy, and even building new family traditions; but when I was envisioning this blog, I also wanted to include quick, simple ideas that we could implement to make life a little easier. Do you have tip for something easy to do that can save a little time, make us feel better, or just add smiles to our faces? If so, I’d love to hear it. Email me at lornadoone@letsdosomethinggood.com with your suggestions or leave them in the comments section.
I love the word “serendipity.” Today’s suggestion for Something Good came as a direct result of my own disorganization. Somewhere along the line I forgot to take a beach towel out of the car. Most likely, I kicked myself each time I caught sight of it. “Dang it! I can’t believe I forgot to take that in again!”
Sometime later my (former) foster daughter and her friends went swimming. I brought them out of the YMCA and discovered that despite changing their outer clothes, their little butts were still wet. Yikes! Then I remembered that I had a nice, dry beach towel in the back that they could sit on. Score one for being disorganized. I was able to put it down and do a little Something Good for my new-to-me car seats.
Later on, my darling husband Rob asked me to go out and help him set up a training course for his Search and Rescue group. As we walked back to the car to eat a little lunch, I was loudly congratulating myself on my new-found ability to navigate through the woods with a compass. The day was warm and beautiful, and we didn’t really want to sit in the car to eat. A-ha! I spread out the beach towel, and we had a little picnic in the forest.
Since then, that darn towel has come in handy so many times! Hanging out with friends around the campfire, I found it made a great blanket in the chilly evening. An exchange student didn’t have a towel to shower at an orientation and . . . Viola! I’ve rolled it up to use as a pillow on long car trips and have used it to wipe my hands after unexpectedly needing to change a tire. I even used it inside my sleeping bag once when it turned out I was allergic to the lining of my bedroll. Douglas Adams was so right when he wrote about the usefulness of the towel in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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