Answered doorbell to find yet another pair of eager young minds hard at work selling magazine for a firm while at the same time receiving a small commission themselves for magazine sold and credit point toward some management training program.
Something like that.
Didn't really listen that closely to what they had to say or even interested in purchasing a magazine until he mentioned magazines could also be donated instead and began reading off a list of places to consider.
Needed to read no further than the very first one on the list...
OUR TROOPS...
which I immediately realize would nicely balance out with the signs I had chosen to display front yard this same day.
I was then asked what magazine would like to donate. Asked them to just choose for me as they probably knew better than me what magazines would be most appreciated.
Upon hearing his suggestion ESPN and Car & Driver, my first reaction was disappointment and almost objected as I view these magazines nothing more than "brain candy," more or less pretty much same thing today's American citizens choose to preoccupy the vast majority of their time rather than participate in any meaningful dialogue or debate today's extremely polarized political environment.
Time's magazine or other like news magazine was more what I had in mind.
Ended up just agreeing with his reccommendation.
With most people today behaving
as if an asteroid is heading toward earth but no one willing to talk about it,
can't think of anyone more deserving of "brain candy" than our troops so hastily placed in harms way when ourselves feeling threatened then pretty much forgotten about as everyone's attention began gradually returning back to the trivial details of their daily insignificant petty little lives.
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