This week’s “Use All The Crayons!” colorful living tips Instagram medley.
Podcast guest spot of the month. Here’s me sharing my Arnold Palmer stories with my friend Gair Maxwell, the renown motivational speaker and talent behind “Big Little Legends: How Everyday Leaders Build Irresistible Brands.” Here’s the link.
Today’s Theme: Mixed Bag
Colorful Living Tip of the Day …
• Refer to grocery store clerks who are overly generous with inefficient and wasteful plastic sacks as being “bagnanimous.”
Relateds …
• Become a squirrel trainer. Learn to sit quietly in a squirrel-filled park with a big bag of peanuts. Eventually, the nervous critters will overcome their jitters and snatch the nut right from your fingers. It may take all summer, and it may only happen once, but the delight will be worth it.
• Someone letting the cat out of the bag will become more impactful to me as soon as I start seeing more instances of bagged cats.
• News reports of a local home being ransacked always make me wonder if the suspect is Santa, a man who runs with sacks.
• I’ve never seen a duffel bag full of duffels & I’m okay with that. If it ever happens I’d never again have the guts to peek in a handbag.
• Women who purse their lips put their mouth where their money is.
Unrelateds …
• Why are there locks on the lobster tank where I shop? If I'm a shoplifter, a live lobster is the last thing I'm stuffing down my pants.
• It is a confounding paradox for those challenged with marketing the machines, but the best vacuum cleaners really do suck.
• It's been a long, long time and I still can't believe it's not butter.
• If Flex Seal works as well as the commercials say it does, I'll never need Right Guard again!
Zeitgust Word of the Week (a word I made up with the goal of getting it into an actual dictionary) …
Splashock: The terrifying realization that the person who’d showered previously forgot to restore the faucet to necessary tub dispensing.
Related blog post …
“My one-man neighborhood trash crusade (August ’13) …
Carrying a plastic grocery bag with me on my daily walks is starting to become a habit. It’s happening frequently enough that my daughters said they’re thinking about getting me an orange jump suit so it’ll at least look like I belong to a prison work release program. They think this would be better than appearing as I am, just a conscientious father out to tidy up the planet they’ll one day be inheriting from me. You’d think they’d be grateful. If things keep going the way they’ve always been, the planet’s the only thing they’ll likely be inheriting from me.
Concluding thoughts …
• Once a week take a soulful mile-long walk with a plastic grocery bag. You need not veer, but stoop down and pick up any trash that you’d otherwise have to step over. If you feel like it, go ahead and pick up the nearby trash, too. Some people will think you’re a nut tilting at recyclable windmills. Others will think you’re inspiring. If anyone asks why you’re picking up trash that isn’t even yours, tell them the trash might not be yours, but the planet is.
Author’s note …
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