LITTLE THINGS
You can experience of wonderful sense of accomplishment when you re-discover how much you can help others in need
by doing things for their betterment.
Due to illnesses in recent months, we have found it to be not easy for us to express our gratitude for the countless friends and neighbors - even few outright strangers we had not known before - have been doing things on our behalf. We continue to find it difficult to show proper gratitude and in appreciation of all in their giving or time , effort and true appreciation for such personal gifts.
When we moved a year we, purposely selected a house with much less yard to keep "up" as the expression goes, while keeping the grass down is a common chore. To deal with that we kept our riding mower. Our daughter Barbara enjoys riding the machine as do our grand children when visiting. There's a small area about two-car size front of the house; a bit larger grassy area in the back and side stripe are every bit of six or feet wide.
Barbara had minor surgery on her elbow and she wore a white supporting bandage on her right arm for a week or so.That was sufficient notice to cause the young man who mows the large lawn of the large Covenant Community Church to included our yard in his mowing work. He uses on of those those stand-and-ride super rigs and it takes perhaps two passes to do our hard as well as the grass covered borders of the church parking lot and joining our scrape of land borders the church's parking lot. He also returns to
which overflows into the car-parking area when it gets too full.
Foodstuffs and phone calls have also been abundant;notes, letters and cards, too - have been frequent and most welcome.
Right now, while we are marking the second anniversary of the Katrina flood emergencies is an especially appropriate time to give some special thought and serious attention to the ways in which might allay much of the pain and suffering. Many such conditions never make the news headlines or excite political or governmental actions other than idealized talk with little genuine actions to combat the basic evils. Much is to be led and even accomplished by concerned individuals and the groups into which they so easily form to build stamina, strength and confidence.
Andrew McCaskey Sr. amccsr@comcast.net [c415wds]
8-30-07
