It’s the first FULL day of summer in the northern hemisphere. It’s where I live and where most of the world’s population lives also – it’s approximately a 90-10 spilt! It’s largely due to equity of land distribution – 68-32 spilt in favor of the northern hemisphere.

But this isn’t a geography lesson.

I saw something recently that explained one of the reasons for the decline in cognitive ability in aging adults (and that’s me) is when we stop creating.

MtDC is fifteen years old this summer going on sixteen and I’d like to see it continue to grow.

I have a blogger friend who ‘s Saturday post is always – Photos of the Week. Each week Wynne includes a sign she has come across in her travels during the week and it is always a good message. She peppers it with images from her family’s weekI look. I forward to her posts each Saturday morning.

In an effort to spur my creativity, I am going to try something new – a weekly sign of the week post. So today’s post is the start of something new, maybe this coming week I’ll find another sign, and next week it will be a streak. I hope I can maintain it.

I am a sporty person. I have written about football, wrestling, baseball, auto racing,  basketball, and many other sports since I began creating at MtDC in May 2010. I use the metaphor of a sport frequently in class and for some of my kiddos, it’s lost. But it does resonate with a few students. So I keep at it, like I want them to in class and life.

All it takes is to be kind. 

It’s Saturday morning and I have a date at the food pantry. It’s my weekly dose of Saturday service to the community. All it really takes is getting up, getting going, and seizing the day. It encourages me to be kind, to be better. I have made a lot of friends over the past five and half years of volunteering at Loaves and Fishes – many of them clients who rely on us to fill their pantry or give them a lift for the week. Sometimes, no really most times, I get more from Loaves than my clients get from them. It’s a fair trade.

So I am going to jump up, jump in, and seize the day. Then edit and press post Making the Days Count, one day at a time, looking forward inspirations where ever I see it.

Have you seen a sign recently that encouraged you to be better? 

NOTE: This post was created and published solely using an iPad at an elevation of 770 feet above sea level.