Let them Eat Cake

Note: If you don't read anything here, just listen to the song. 

I am grateful for my circle of friends and co-workers. I am blessed with compassionate and smart conversations. The day after the horrible shooting in San Bernardino, a friend sent me an article about a police office that bought a cake for a thief. The thief was a mom making a cake for her child. When faced with his choices, Officer Michael Kotsonis choose the pro-life path: pay for the ingredients and let the child have his cake. 

http://www.ccenterdispatch.com/news/state/article_70c7f903-bdf5-5b7c-99b4-2e2da80f3f88.html

To honor Officer Michael Kotsonis, I thought I should donate some cake ingredients to our local food pantries. Luckily I read up a bit and found that cake mix is fairly useless to families without eggs and oil around the house. Instead the recommendation was to buy fun kid lunch items. I also believe socks and female hygiene items are the secret to happiness and a start to world peace.  I will start there. 
http://www.takepart.com/photos/7-items-you-should-donate-your-local-food-bank-and-3-you-should-keep-yourself/food-banks-are-suffering-empty-shelves-year

Peace and Joy, 
Ginny 

As Joshua Radin said so beautifully "Let's not forget we're alive"