Oct/Nov Edition of the Senior News

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LIFE’S Observations… “Be the reason someone thousand words. Sometimes a picture on our phone is smiles today” is our theme worthy of an instant “thumbs up”, but occasionally that for this issue of the Alliance same picture is worth a hundred considerations and the Senior News. The deadline “thousand words” put to paper. Then it should be signed on submitting these articles and folded and placed in an envelope with an address for publication is a full five and a stamp to be mailed to your intended receiver. weeks before they come out Mailing a letter is a commitment of sorts. It says to your in print. That is long enough receiver, “You reached out to me and shared a little bit of in the instant world of Social By David Mosdal who you are, now I am returning that favor by thanking Media for an idea to be Guest Columnist you and sharing a little more about me”. Thinking floated out there to be either leads to understanding. Understanding leads to action. “liked” and forwarded a zillion times, or to be plunked in Through the act of sharing a letter with someone, the that on-screen garbage real-time world slows can, never to be heard down to the speed of from again. (This makes human understanding, me wonder who has the if only briefly, where we chore of sweeping up can fix a moment in time behind this gargantuan Sometimes a picture on our and return to it as often elephant full of worthless phone is worthy of an instant as we may like or need. ideas... Now that's a rabbit hole with a badger “thumbs up”, but occasionally If you've stayed with at the bottom that isn't me to this point then that same picture is worth a worth entering. But I you know my goal is for hundred considerations and the digress). you is to “Be the reason someone smiles today”. “thousand words” put to paper. Back to this notion of a Writing a letter is just five-week gestation from — David Mosdal one suggestion. You keystroke to print; who should practice your own thinks in those terms best method of bringing anyway? Well, farmers a smile to someone's and ranchers do. face. However, if you Gardeners do. Pregnant want to write a letter and mothers certainly do. don't know where to send it, send it to me at PO Box 6, Maybe our world hasn't really become as immediate as Broadview, MT 59105. I have stamps. I’ll write back. it seems right now. Isn’t a thought worth sharing worth the effort of thinking about it for a while before shared with our circle of family and friends? It is said that a picture is worth a

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