"Be Prepared" is the Boy Scouts motto. I would hazard a guess a fair amount of people know this. What's not so known is the Boy Scout Slogan. "Do A Good Turn Daily" When I first read that in my BSA Handbook I had no idea what it meant. My Dad fully explained it to me as young boy. My reaction was priceless, according to my Dad. Me: "That's ridiculous! What do I get outta helping someone or doing something nice and positive for someone else everyday?" Dad: "Nothing but the satisfaction of helping, sonny boy. It'll make the world a better place. Especially if everyone did it, not just Boy Scouts of America." Me: "Rubbish, I say." Dad: "Well?" Me: "Well what?" Dad: "Well are you going to do it?" Me: I grumbled. "Yeah, I'll do it." And I've been doing it every day since then for the past 25 years. That's about 9, 125 turns. Not every turn was obvious or pres...
My observations and thoughts while being a passenger on Spaceship Earth