Messing about with empathy
Day 6 – Do a good deed. Good deeds are those little things that don’t have to be done, but you do anyway. Try to do three today. How often do you do a job at home and then point it out so that your spouse will thank you? How often do you grumble because…
Day 5 – Write a letter to Santa. How does he know what you want if you don’t tell him? Read them out loud when you are done so Santa can hear you. Yes, Virginia, I do believe in Santa Claus. Quantum physics makes his Christmas Eve trip work. If you want the details, check…
Day 4 – Give to the poor. Does that foodbank need some canned food? Do you have some clothes that could be donated? Donate every time you see a Salvation Army bell ringer. I thought I would find out why the Salvation Army kettles are red, but apparently, they just are. The idea of collecting…
Day 3 – Try something new. Have you ever eaten Greek food? Try it. Or try anything you’ve never done. Broadening your horizon is a present to yourself. I love trying new things. Setting up the Footle and Grok podcast has forced me to try a lot of new programs, and I haven’t mastered them…
Day 2 – Pray for peace. Try to make it a daily habit. That seems pretty self-explanatory, which is good because I have big news to share. Footle and Grok is now a podcast! That’s right. Starting today, you can listen to Footle and Grok as well as read it. Right now, the podcast is…
Day 1 – Keep a Christmas tape in your car. Play it as you drive so that you remember to display Christmas spirit with other drivers. Tape? What year did I make this list? I still have several Christmas cassettes, but this year I’m transferring them into iTunes as I have done with all my…
I wanted to do something fun with Footle and Grok in December. After several ideas floated around my mind, I settled on the following plan. Many years ago, I made advent quilts for family members. This hanging quilt had twenty-four pockets, and each pocket held an index card. The cards had the day on one…
It’s time to make some fun December goals. One of the things I want to focus on this year is Christmas music. Now that it’s after Thanksgiving, I love listening to the festive songs on the radio, but I rarely play all the Christmas CDs I have. This year I’m going to change that. I…
Happy Thanksgiving. As you prepare your stuffing and prep your turkey, before family and football, why not listen to a thought-provoking podcast? Seth Godin, an insightful person and a marketing guru, has a podcast called Akimbo. In this week’s episode, he talks about Thanksgiving traditions and the power of marketing. It was interesting to learn…
There are a lot of debates when it comes to Christmas cards. Photo cards vs. traditional cards. Christmas letter vs. handwritten note. Mailed cards vs. ecards. But I’ve never seen anyone discuss handwriting the address on the envelope vs. printing labels. I’ve been sending cards out for about twenty-four years. For all those years, I…