Standing Together Separately, Lean on Me, Iwo Jima and Quotes to Inspire

Some Ideas From BDE that have been percolating for a few days. Hope you enjoy or think about them and share them even if the ideas don’t grab you yet, maybe you have some to add to help us Stand Together Separately!

Went to the grocery store this week and not during senior time even though I can. Been interesting to learn that you’re in the most vulnerable group even though you don’t think of your self that way? At the grocery store able to get some gems : a six pack that has been hard to come by (6 rolls of TP), a box of CheezIts, and Boulder Salt and Vinegar Chips. What a glorious haul! Deb and I found that 30 minutes after senior time was better than during senior time but keep that to yourself. We bought only what we would use for the next 2 weeks, so we all have a chance to take home a 6 pack, CheezIts, and Salt and Vinegar Chips. We all need to Stand Together Separately! I am not a Health Care Worker, A Grocery Store Worker, A First Responder or A Truck Driver but I can do my part by staying at home and staying healthy. I can thank and appreciate them and do my part by being positive, hopeful and doing what our medical leader Dr. Fauci asks us to do! Standing Together Separately!

Lean On Me

Bill Withers passed this week and his song Lean On Me is a great one for us to be singing for each other and to each other right now. I have used it before with teams to Stand Together and realize how we are connected. The chorus goes like this;

Lean on me when you’re not strong

I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on

For it won’t be long

Til I’m gonna need somebody to lean on.

Music and songs can do wonders in causing us to be motivated to do positive acts! So listen to Bill Withers sing “Lean On Me” and sing along with Bill. It would be a super tribute to him and might just help us all Lean toward Standing Together Separately!

Our leaders say we are at War with this virus yet we are not acting like we act when we are at War! I was reminded last week by Harry Smith (NBC) that 75 years ago more than 6,000 mostly 18-22 year olds gave their lives in the Battle of Iwo Jima fighting on a tiny atoll in the Pacific that helped in winning WWII in the Pacific. Over 40,000 Americans were injured. Americans back home were needed also. Men and women that could not go to the front lines in Europe or the Pacific did their part by rationing, building, raising funds and most of all supporting the cause. If,as our leaders say, this is a War, it is a World War in which every country of the planet is on the same side. When ever we have fought in a World War our country has come together. We don’t make excuses or look for someone to blame, we find ways to get the job done to save our people (in this case all of humanity together). Let’s Stand Together Separately to help each other fight this battle by finding solutions to the problems at hand. That is how we have attacked the challenge of World Wars throughout our history and we have won by working positively together. This time it’s for all of us on Earth!

Here is some inspiration;

The Darkest Nights bring out the brightest stars!

A BDE saying that means when we face challenges is when our character is revealed

And so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you– ask what you can do for your country

President John F Kennedy’s inauguration speech, he could be passing the torch to us Today!

We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, and whatever affects one another directly affects all indirectly.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in sermon that could be made today about how we all need each other to make the best of ourselves and each other

The BDE call to action for two weeks (if we do it for 2 weeks it could become a habit) 1) Be Positive, Grateful and Appreciative to each other ,wave and smile. 2) Be a part of solutions ,don’t criticize or look backwards. We are helping each other not placing blame or finding fault! 3) Sing “Lean on Me” with Bill Withers and send to me and others inspirational songs and quotes that touch your soul in this challenging time. 4) Check up on someone that means something to you! Doesn’t have to be some one that is vulnerable as everyone needs and enjoys being checked on. 5)We are Americans! Not democrats or republicans, not red and not blue but the people of the USA trying to help save the citizens of the World! Standing Together Separately and wearing a mask!STS in a mask