What if everyone welcomed everyone into their hearts? What if it were easy and natural to accept everyone? No effort involved. What has made it so difficult for Me in the form of you to welcome everyone to Our fold? There is some need this fills, or no one would dismiss this person or that. You would not. You would not block anyone from your heart and let in only those especially chosen. You would not bar some or any from your heart nor would you welcome some and then later decide to toss them out.

There may be more people that you don’t favor than those you do. This makes no sense.

Ego must play some part in this. Ego might be looking for status. Ego likes to judge. You might hear ego call out: “Unworthy of you. Skip that one.”

Ego might whisper in your ear, and you turn away from someone you would bless with a hello. You never know. Welcoming all to this world does not make you gallant. The least you can do is to move over and offer another a seat. What can be so hard about having a generous heart?

Of course, you can’t marry everyone. You can’t bring your whole class home with you after school, yet what says that you are not ready to be on behalf of everyone? I wonder why you make lists in your mind and cross out some hearts from your heart. What is the good of it? If being exclusive makes you happy, how can that be? You snub someone, and you feel good about it?

Kind reader, I have what I like to call a finely tuned bullshit detector, but this one slipped right past it. Last week, we reported that scientists discovered a new type of cannabis in Australia. Sadly, even I got duped by this one. It’s a total hoax. I guess it goes to show that you can’t always believe everything you read on the Internet.

Sad to report for all of our pot-loving friends out there, there won’t be an exotic new type of cannabis headed for your bong any time soon. Of course, with the species of cannabis that we know for sure exist, the opportunity to find new medicinal and utilitarian uses for the plant is still very much present, and we look forward to reporting actual advances as they happen, not hoaxes.

Did you know that the United States produced 250 million tons of trash in 2010? That’s a lot of garbage! Most of that trash is either recyclable, which is an important thing to do, or can be thrown into a compost heap. Composting enables you to divert a ton of trash from the landfill and creates good, usable soil for your garden at home.

Pretty great, right?

It can certainly be hard for some people to find a way to compost. I mean, where do you put a compost heap if you’re in an apartment building? Hey, necessity is the mother of invention, right? Maybe talk to your property management about starting a building-wide composting program, or finding local farmers who will gladly take your trash.

Stand up! Be true to, honest with and respectful of yourself. How can you carry the expectation of someone being these things to you if you cannot be this to yourself? ~ Creator