More Eager Young Minds: Magazines Donated To Our Troops

 

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. 

 

 

Maurice Sendak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maurice Sendak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Maurice Bernard Sendak (/ˈsɛndæk/; June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He became widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963.[1] Born to Jewish-Polish parents, his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Besides Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak also wrote works such as In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There, and illustrated Little Bear.

Sendak mentioned in a September 2008 article in The New York Times that he was gay and had lived with his partner, psychoanalyst Dr. Eugene Glynn, for 50 years before Glynn's death in May 2007. Revealing that he never told his parents, he said, "All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew." Sendak's relationship with Glynn had been mentioned by other writers before (e.g., Tony Kushner in 2003). In Glynn's 2007 New York Times obituary, Sendak was listed as Glynn's "partner of fifty years". After his partner's death, Sendak donated $1 million to the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services in memory of Glynn who had treated young people there. The gift will name a clinic for Glynn.

Sendak was an atheist, and stated in a September 2011 interview with Terry Gross on National Public Radio's Fresh Air that he didn't believe in God. He went on to elaborate, and said among other things, "It [religion, and belief in God] must have made life much easier [for some religious friends of his]. It's harder for us non-believers."