Doing for Others

Brain cancer is...

 ...helping others.

Colorado, where our kids Zach and Summer live, just went on "Stay Home" status today.  Above you see Darrell helping them out:  He sent them some meat. (Somewhat predictably, yes?)

There is something so great about helping other people when we are feeling the limits of our power, isn't there?  Doing for others feels to us like a way to take some sort of action--to do something good!--when so much seems beyond our control.   These days, we look for new ways to help others.

Today Colin, our friend, Team D member, and brother of GJ (here's our post of GJ's passing, as a reminder) wrote us with a great and timely idea for helping others.

Colin knows we love our one-click shopping.  Today he reminded us of a simple way that one-clickers can help others...while staying home and without spending additional money:  AmazonSmile. When we shop through AmazonSmile, Amazon donates 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible items to our designated charity. 

For the new smilers:  Go to smile.amazon.com and login to your Amazon account.  Then choose your charity.  When you shop, login through smile.amazon to earn for your charity.

In case you're already a smiler (as we are), you can also update your charity.  Example:  Long ago, we chose the Nature Conservancy for our charity.  The Conservancy is indeed a worthy cause.
In light of the skunk wars, though, it seems fitting that we might want to update our charity.  To do so, we'd login to our AmazonSmile account, click on "your account," and choose "change your Amazon Smile charity."  The screen looks like this:

 

Then we can search for a new choice.  One idea:  StacheStrong, the foundation that Colin and his family created to raise money for research to eradicate GBM.

Thanks, Colin, for the perfectly timed tip!  And thanks to you, your family, and the foundation for all you do to help others.

Today the cow pillow arrived.

It's clearly a win/win situation:  We are smiling about our terrific pillow and at about fact that we did a little good today. 

Today's Blooms

Roene's Chinese orchid, in Alabama.  Yes, it's a relative of our orchid.

Meridyth's almost-blooming tree (foreground) in the Great Smoky Mountains last week  (We're pointing out the bloom in case we have literal team members in the crowd.)