Make it better

Running around my neighborhood has made me bitter.

I see piles of trash on the side of the road and I tell myself a story about people that don't care. I see more and trash and I feel more anger. What can I do? What control do I have?

The same control I tell my kids that they have - I can only control myself.

So I'm going to clean it up. Why spent another second thinking about how other people are making things messy when I could just pick up an entire bag of trash on my own.

I bought a 2-pack of those "litter-picker-uppers" on Amazon. I'm planning to turn some rucks/walks into a little walk as well.

I think it's going to be gratifying to clean up a space, taking control of 1 square foot of space and making it better.

The size of the entire problem is immense, too difficult to contemplate. And I can't fix it, so why worry about it?

I can make a small dent in it - that's my option.