Happy New Year to All - Thoughts and Donations

Happy New Year to all of my friends across this wide world. We've now entered another calendar year, but the troubles and strife of the previous year has followed us as well. My prayer for this year is peace and love for all - two-footed, four-footed, finned and winged. My charitable donations for the year followed that theme, with several wildlife organizations, the Humane Society, and a generous monthly donation to St Jude Children's Hospital, public television and public radio. I'm doing more monthly donations this year since the monthly donation I already make to Trevor Project have been working out quite well. It is my personal belief that to have funds means an obligation to share those funds, and this is how I choose to do so. 

I chose St Jude Children's Research Hospital for a monthly 
donation based on one thing they did over 2020. They 
were single-handedly responsible for the evacuation of 
hundreds of desperately ill children and their parent(s) from 
Ukraine. They arranged for a full hospital train to pick 
them up and bring them out of Ukraine, where they were 
sorted out, assigned to various medical centers (including 
St Jude's in the USA) and treated for their various illnesses. 
They paid for it all, and saved hundreds of children as a 
result of this action. I think they deserve a bit of my money 
for such an amazing feat of wartime moxy. 

Tomorrow (actually later today since it's after midnight) we're heading over to my youngest niece's house for a family Christmas/New Years get-together. We haven't had one of these since pre-Covid, so it'll be pleasant to see everyone again. I wish all of my readers a safe and happy New Year and thank all of you for having been there for me when I needed you over this past year. We all need a friend to lean on every now and again, and you play that role in my life. Slava Ukraini and Happy New Year.