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Celebrate life whether your glass is half empty or half full. How you approach it, is your choice. We see what we expect! Learn how to Volunteer From Home, VFH!
Do you see what others experience daily? Supermarkets hosted pre-snow social gatherings, allowing us to compare tips for driving in the snow. Then we complained about food prices and school closures over a little snow. Shopping quickly, we paused for a minute before grabbing a dozen eggs from limited inventory. Plenty of toilet paper, but eggs cost over $6!
I saw folks riding electric scooters while I walked and pushed my cart. I passed another man with a disability. He used crutches under both arms while he was pushing his cart and shopping because he had just one leg.
Volunteering to join a third-grade “little brother” at lunch at Cunningham Elementary, I saw many tiny wheelchairs parked in the halls as students attended classroom activities. By the way, volunteers are urgently needed at Big Brothers, Big Sisters bbbstx.org/wichita-county.
You should have seen the joy as four third-graders wished for snow days.

I challenged them to prepare by finding good-sized boxes to slide down hills.
Isaac said, “I’ll visit my friend. He has a sled!”
I’m reminded again that so many others have less than I — warm clothes, material goods, housing, transportation, friends and community.
My clouds cleared and the sunshine of gratitude dawned upon me.
I have many blessings — sight, health, mobility, sound mind.
And I can donate blood, an urgent need in our community.
I believe we are here to make a difference.
How do you share your gratitude and blessings?
Celebrate life whether half empty or half full. How you approach it, is your choice. We see what we expect!
Ever consider VFH, Volunteer from Home?
“Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Issacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C.
She is part of the team that coordinates the more than 5,000 citizen archivists helping the Archive read and transcribe some of the more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog.
And they’re looking for volunteers with this increasingly rare skill who can read cursive writing: www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/get-startedtranscribing.
Humility and gratitude are your next superpowers.
If you are the smartest person in the room, who can you learn from?
My parents often shared, “Two ears and one mouth, wonder why?”
Before a must-win customer briefing with the board of directors of NCR, Motorola’s chief operating officer, John Mitchell, coached me, “Tell ‘em what you’re going to tell ‘em and shut up! Then we’ll see what they want to do.”
Volunteer. We can make it better for all.
You get what you give.
Published Wichita Falls Times Record News, Trends Section, Sunday January 26, 2025.
Jack Browne is a community activist and technology engineer, sales and marketing executive at Motorola, MIPS Technologies and other companies. How are the children doing?