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National Do Something Nice Day
Well, apparently October 5 is National Do Something Nice Day. That's what Jennifer Burke Grehan over at Bacon and Beach Days tells me. See her October challenge here:
I was raised to be nice so I don’t know why we need a day. But if we do we do.
My father was the original nice guy. I mean, sure, he beat people up, but only when they had it coming and only when they started it.
He was tall and strong. A former boxer and army man, he was tough as nails. And he was as sweet and squishy as anyone I ever met.
He grew up poor, the oldest boy of 13 children in a Black family during the depression. He knew hunger. He knew going without. He knew the feeling of ill-fitting clothes.
And when he was finally in a position to look after himself, he made it his life’s mission to make sure…
