I am devastated at the school shootings.  When I went to school in the 1960s, the worst thing that happened was someone getting into a tussle or sneaking outside for a cigarette. I think that instead of school walkouts, which could carry some dire consequences, students should do 17 acts of kindness.  Help an elderly person plant flowers or load groceries into their car, volunteer at a nursing home, pick up garbage on the side of the road, pay the toll for the person in the car behind you, bake someone cookies.  The list is endless and our world would be a better place. I don't have children or grandchildren, but if I did this is what I would encourage them to do. All children are in my prayers.

Linda Bridges,


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