Good for Craig! Do what you love and help people at the same time…that is cool! While Craig does big stuff we can all do little things for our neighbors, especially if you walk your dog. Close a mailbox, pick up some trash, move the trash bin to the street if someone is ill. There are many opportunities if you pay attention.
15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes? I am 69 and can easily do 30 pushups. Never do sit-ups but my core is strong from yoga and riding my bike up and down the foothills of upstate SC 100 miles a week. More than a third of guys can’t do 15 pushups? And these are guys that want law enforcement jobs? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!!
Great stuff this week Bill, nicely done! Not sure the Gen X grandparents are actually any different based upon that story. Stills seems like it’s the best thing ever! Though Craig’s efforts are a close second. 😆
1) Thank you for Free Friday's. 2) My mother was from SLO Town and I spent many weekends, most holidays and summers with my grandparents during my growing up years. San Luis Obispo and the surrounding areas are fantastic and hold a very precious spot in my heart. While I watched the Motel Inn wax and wain through the years I never stayed at the motel - why would I when Grandma's home and good cooking were available to me?! 😊 Thanks for sharing and reminding me of people long gone and very happy times!
My kids spent lots of time with my parents, out on the farm. Gave them lots of good memories, like if you went into town with Grampa, he could be convinced to go to 7-Eleven for slurpees. Now I have not seen my grandkids in three years, likely won’t see them for another three and to doesn’t bother me.
The need for anti depressants just confirms my belief that parents are not teaching their kids how to deal with life. Taking a pill doesn’t make the problems go away.
And good on Craig Clark! We have a Repair Shop in our community where you can take token things and a bunch of mechanically minded people will do their best to fix it. Keeps things out of the landfill.
Thanks for sharing with free Friday!
Loved the Craig Clark story! What a wonderful way to give back.
Good for Craig! Do what you love and help people at the same time…that is cool! While Craig does big stuff we can all do little things for our neighbors, especially if you walk your dog. Close a mailbox, pick up some trash, move the trash bin to the street if someone is ill. There are many opportunities if you pay attention.
15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes? I am 69 and can easily do 30 pushups. Never do sit-ups but my core is strong from yoga and riding my bike up and down the foothills of upstate SC 100 miles a week. More than a third of guys can’t do 15 pushups? And these are guys that want law enforcement jobs? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!!
Whisky Tango Foxtrot indeed but for so many other things too.
Not that I want to work for ICE, but I am in my 60’s and could easily accomplish all three challenges. What is wrong with youth these days?
Great stuff this week Bill, nicely done! Not sure the Gen X grandparents are actually any different based upon that story. Stills seems like it’s the best thing ever! Though Craig’s efforts are a close second. 😆
1) Thank you for Free Friday's. 2) My mother was from SLO Town and I spent many weekends, most holidays and summers with my grandparents during my growing up years. San Luis Obispo and the surrounding areas are fantastic and hold a very precious spot in my heart. While I watched the Motel Inn wax and wain through the years I never stayed at the motel - why would I when Grandma's home and good cooking were available to me?! 😊 Thanks for sharing and reminding me of people long gone and very happy times!
My kids spent lots of time with my parents, out on the farm. Gave them lots of good memories, like if you went into town with Grampa, he could be convinced to go to 7-Eleven for slurpees. Now I have not seen my grandkids in three years, likely won’t see them for another three and to doesn’t bother me.
The need for anti depressants just confirms my belief that parents are not teaching their kids how to deal with life. Taking a pill doesn’t make the problems go away.
And good on Craig Clark! We have a Repair Shop in our community where you can take token things and a bunch of mechanically minded people will do their best to fix it. Keeps things out of the landfill.
The Man Who Caught the Rain
There’s a photograph I return to when the world feels loud and faithless.
A President stands beneath the colonnade, his hand cupped to the sky—
not to test the weather, but to receive it.
Raindrops gather in his palm like something sacred.
The grass glows with gratitude.
Even the air seems to remember decency.
It started with that photo.
No umbrella.
No entourage.
Just him and the weather,
two old friends with nothing left to prove.
The roses leaned toward him,
as if to hear what integrity sounds like
when it exhales.
Now the roses are gone.
The grass, too.
They’ve paved it over—
a kind of reverse miracle,
turning life into rubble.
They call it renovation.
I call it grief without permit.
And sometimes, when I look again,
I imagine those same raindrops returning—
only now they could be our teardrops,
and there’s nobody left
to catch and cradle them.
Long after the old marble was set,
long after the cameras went home,
the rain still falls, whispering his name
to the ghosts of the roses
that once believed
we could be good.
— Gloria Horton-Young