The other day my volunteer shift to deliver food gave me a double challenge. The amount of food that would have been thrown away required two trips and it was raining and cold. Then last night, the volunteer organizer said there was a big load of milk close to the expiration date and asked if anyone could do an extra shift. No one else could do it and I could, so this morning I did another double load. Liquids are the most dense, so the load was particularly heavy. (This picture is from another shift. I don't take pictures every time I deliver so reuse pictures from old posts stored in Wordpress.) Saturday's cold and rain would have made me feel miserable if I were…

I just wrote a post Clarifying what people get when they pollute and deplete less since everyone views polluting and depleting less the way a heroin addict views using heroin less. They think it means deprivation and sacrifice. On the contrary, it bring liberation and freedom. Also health, safety, and security. You get more. Another person who couldn't see his way to stopping depriving others of life, liberty, and property without due process of law was Thomas Jefferson. We know he valued life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness, but he only worked to attain them for himself and his peers. He didn't extend those values to his slaves. Like us today, he saw freeing his slaves as deprivation, sacrifice, and risk, despite his…