What Our Lion’s Club Has Been Doing
Written by Mary Stephenson
The Annual Kohl’s Shopping Spree on July 30, 2016 was a huge success again this year.
I believe it was 95 children that were the recipients of the wonderful generosity of Shasta County. Having new school clothes gives a sense of pride and a new beginning for the first day of school.
Progress is still taking place at Sycamore School. Not only our Lion’s club has rallied around to help, but a number of businesses have given donations to help in the creation of the special room.
I was in there painting by myself the other day alone with my thoughts. All of a sudden I was bombarded with some overly excited children breaking the silence. It was like being jarred awake from a daydream.
Building a Better Community
Written by: Mary Stephenson
Just for the asking…
Probably one of the hardest things for us to do is ask. Sure some things are easy to ask for but others are not in the realm of what we were brought up to do.
To justify the asking we have to produce good reasons.
“Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.”
– Robin Sharma
The above quote I received in the mail a few months ago from my former realtor. Today I have it sitting on my desk between my monitor and keyboard. I often glance at it when I need inspiration to keep reaching for what has always been difficult, yes, and very outside my comfort zone. Continue reading
An Open Letter to Our President
Written by Mary Stephenson
El Presidente shall not let me slide on my “one word” wee hour inspiration. For those of you who don’t recall you can refer to this previous post. The word was stagnant.
Can’t help that my best comes through at 3:00 in the morning! Anyways it is more of what I envision as opposed to the actual word.
Stagnant referred to was the placement of “Home” page on the website. All was transferred over with a few slight updates from our old site. Although well written it was becoming a stagnant placement for it. The whole page information has now been transferred to a better place “About Us” page. Now the “Home” page can be updated and changed as new things evolve in the club.
Rowdy’s rowdy bunch!
Written by: Mary Stephenson
Wow…
Two weeks in a row at our breakfast meeting it was a quiet rumor going around that we should probably tone it down!
I was doubtful how that could actually happen. I suppose toning it down from a loud roar and no bad jokes is about the best we could do. But the delight from all this was the statement made from our visitors about “I wish I could bottle what you have up“. I am sure a number of clubs could be infused with our contagious laughter and be thrilled to be at their meetings every week.
Having a reputation for being “the rowdy bunch” is not a bad thing, as long as we are all having fun. Laughter is good for your health…so maybe that makes our Lion members healthier. Hey, another good reason to become a member of Redding Breakfast Lions Club! Continue reading
Looking Forward
Written by: Mary Stephenson
Attended the board meeting yesterday (7-12-2016).
As my usual process with trying to seek solutions, I sleep for a few hours and then awake with a busy mind. I probably should just get up and start writing stuff down. Nope, it just plays around with my mind until I have it all memorized!
The one thought that came up was the word “stagnant”. Yes, I think that summed up what was brooding in the vision of things that need to change.
