Today, the 29th day of February, comes only every four years, leap year. It is an extra day. So maybe it is not surprising that I felt it was a day of waste. Now for followers of this posting you know that waste is not always that bad. Here is a recap of some of the happenings of my day of waste. In the morning I went with my wife on some St. Vincent De Paul visits to people in great need, some of the people who are neglected and ignored by society. In the St. Vincent De Paul Society we do not judge the motivations of people requesting help (although sometimes we are tempted to do so). For example, one lady asking for a recliner tempted us to think she was using our store as a department store. It turns out that the woman cannot sleep in a bed and the recliner she had for many years finally broke down and she needed a new one. I wasted time this afternoon looking for a quote from an early Jesuit about not supporting an unjust war, only to find it was a Dominican who made this quote. Also I wasted time going out to my coffee shop to pick up waste, coffee grounds. This time one of the employees showed me the place they now dump coffee grounds, a treasure drove of waste for making soil. I wasted some time watching a movie on TV and some time trying to help a friend out. I also felt a little like waste when a group of local Catholics for Peace and Justice send out a monthly newsletter of justice and peace events but failed to mention the major nonviolent action on March 8th to object to the military presence on campus. I guess being a worm of person is not also so comforting.

Tomorrow is new day and a new month. The commercial plant store holds its monthly sales of house and office plants. It is a good chance to purchase some nice, but maybe a little sick, office plants at affordable prices. Tomorrow I can work on the web page of 40 years of resistance against the military at MU and show once more that this issue, opposing support of an unjust war and training in military values, is not just a personal issue of a few of us but one that thousands have worked on over 40 years. And tomorrow maybe take some more of the waste turned into good soil, and plant new seeds to die only to rise again. So a day of waste, once every four years, I guess is okay.

Time: 11:28 p.m., Office Temp.: 64, Sunroom Temp. Average: 56, Outside Temp.: 31, KWH: 85.55

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