Heavenly Father, on this Memorial Day, Thank you for those brave veterans who have given their all to protect this country.
Bless them and their families.
And give those serving the strength to cope with life after the military.
May they know how grateful we are for their service.
We ask you to hear our prayer, Father, Amen.
KUDOS- to apartment builders and designers that still utilize the good old-fashioned sequential numbering system for apartment design.
BUDOS- to designers who placed building numbers behind carports, roofs, or trees.
KUDOS- to apt designers who not only place building numbers in sequence, but who also place permanent signage near entrances, and throughout huge complexes, directing drivers to correct building numbers.
BUDOS- to apartment designers who think numbers are passé and no longer place addresses nor numbers on apartment entrance monuments.
KUDOS- to apt designers who place visible lighting above each apt building number clearly at night (actually, I swear, I have yet to see this).
BUDOS- to newer apt block building designers who have magnetic keypads at wire doors with no numbers, no keys nor speakers, no instructions, hint nor clue (I see this all the time).
Kudos or Budos
Kudos to the young man who walked me to my car with an umbrella during a terrible storm after a restaurant pickup. I thanked him and said, ‘Gd Bless’. I don’t know how he took it but I meant it in its most positive way.
Boo-dos to the elderly gentleman working at the pet store who wore an upside-down flag face-mask. When I asked him why he did that, he replied that at least he didn’t salute it (?)
This is for you;
Along with automated $5 donations to Dog n Kitty City, I’ve also included an auto $5 monthly donation to Best Friends animal sanctuary.
It’s a little difficult to copy/paste it here without giving away my minuscule financial information, but I’ll try to include copies of it to the Rescue tab/page soon.
I found a home for monthly automated donations, at least for now, to one of very few no-kill shelters.
Best Friends pledged to make the entire country no-kill by 2025 but that’s coming up sooner than they thought! Still an awesome animal sanctuary.
In the mean-time, DogNKitty City was created as a no-kill shelter for dogs & cats. It’s a small shelter in an industrial area but they’ve got good support and I hope they can expand.
It’s a tiny route, a tiny shelter, and a tiny $5 monthly donation.
It looks like my monthly automated donations to HSUS have stopped.
Taking a look, I saw that HSUS.org has changed a lot.
For one thing, the Humane University has moved to, of all places,
Madonna University..!?! Yep, Madonna.edu, where;
Get your degree in a cutting-edge field connecting social justice, environmental conservation, and animal protection.
I guess anything’s possible these days as banks, schools, conferences, and classes have been moving online.
I’m not going to concern my work with social justice, laws, or the environment.
Critters, that’s it, just critters.
I realize that laws can benefit animals, social justice can help the climate which can help the animals, and on it goes, but what I found is that it ended up taking me further and further from the critters themselves.
I should say here that it is my intention to help animals, that is, the care and comfort of animals. Realizing this can mean helping people help animals, it moves too far into a political/social realm and animals get left behind yet again.
Real work with real animals looks more like this;
This guy runs his shelter somewhere in Greece, he has lots of volunteers and employees.
If u think the New World is cruel to animals, it’s nothing like the Old World. And it’s not really cruelty so much as it is disregard. Animals are virtually things there, like furniture that eats and poops and that’s it.
This guy sees them as beings with feelings, souls, instincts, thoughts and care. He stays on grounds with them day and night and dedicates his life to them. I couldn’t do it, I don’t know many who could, but I would if I could but I can’t so I don’t.
I do what I can which really isn’t much at all compared to dedication such as Takis Shelter, but I try.
I’ve long been a fan of Cesar Milan, the American version.
I have no idea of their political leanings and really truly don’t want to know, I’d just like to see more awareness available of the healing powers of unconditional love and hope more centers like these continue to thrive.
I’m aware of the political leanings of HSUS and try to avoid anything that isn’t directly applied to the care and comfort of animals, so with all the new information available, I’ll re-start my tiny monthly donations to one of these wonderful places and will stay posted here.
