Do any or all of the following:

Find your Kids and Grandkids. Invite them over for burgers, dogs or veggie salad with humus. If they say no, ask if you can drop by sometime that day. If you show up, bring cookies and ice cream.

Call old friends and invite them over for the day.

Hug Grandkids Kids and wife or husband as much as possible. If there is a ball game take all to it. If not, buy a whiffle bat and ball and start one. Find a baseball game on the radio and listen out in the yard. Cheer whenever a good play results, regardless of the team.

Laugh and slap your knee in simple joy, if possible.

Drink lots of ice water or tea. Leave the beer, spirits and wind alone for one day. Make orange koolaid and have a glass. Lime or grape koolaid would be nice, too.

Buy several types of old fashioned (cheaper the better) cookies and keep plate 3/4 full all day.

Make peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream for mid afternoon.

Make a pallet or position lawn chair in shade and read a book.

Tell your wife and kids and grandkids that you love them. Hold hands or touch them whenever possible.

Find a shady park and go.

If she or he is alive, call your mom or dad. If you are able, tell them thank you for life.

Put flowers on a grave of someone you love and sit and talk to them about good things. Tell them you miss them and wish you could be together again. Save a flower for a grave that looks lonely in the cemetery. Tell that person that you did this for them.

Unplug the TV on July 3rd. Plug it back in on July 5th.

Find old records, tapes or CDs and keep music going all day. Keep volume low enough to not bother neighbors.

Find someone willing to take a short walk with you. Talk to then as you walk.

Find shade and put five or six chairs in it. Invite anyone to come and sit. Talk to them about good things.

Do not put your shoes on for the entire day. If you have them, wear shorts and a cool non-political shirt.

Feed your dog a little table food at each meal.

If you can, buy a watermelon or two and cut it/them at 2:30 pm. Invite every one to share a slice. If you have a neighbor, call them before lunch and invite them over for a slice.

Try to do as many worthwhile/good/unselfish things as possible that day.

If there are fireworks close by, take everyone out for fireworks in the evening. Take Popsicles with you and treat all to a Popsicle during display.

Do not tun on computer at any point during day or evening. Leave this soul sucking place (Slate) alone. Understand that if you are doing any of the above mentioned, or a thousand other things not mentioned, none of what will be posted here will be of greater value.

Plan now. Do it then.