Day of Delirium #322 - Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Our friend Tony Kim (@Crazy4ComicCon) asked for five nerdy things I am grateful for this year.

Here is what I tweeted:

1) Tony
2) My nerdy friends
3) All the workers at all the cons
4) All the nerdy creators
5) Being nerdy

And I could go on and on.
I am fully blessed in my life and I am forever grateful to all my friends and family, nerdy and not.
I hope that you can reflect on all the blessings in your life today and every day.

Keep Calm
and
Gobble On

Day of Delirium #321 - Random Acts of Kindness Day 11-19-2015

As many of you know my motto is Because Nice Matters, therefore I had to post about this amazing day that is coming up this Thursday. Please consider performing a random act of kindness and know that no act is too small. Even just smiling to a stranger is enough.

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Offer a random act of kindness on Nov. 19

By Freda R. Savana, staff writer 

In light of the terrorist attacks in Paris and the ongoing suffering of so many in the world, a day devoted to random acts of kindness seems much needed.

And for the second year, Bucks County has declared Nov. 19 RAKDay. RAK stands for random acts of kindness.

Many schools in Central Bucks School District will mark the day with various activities like wearing brightly colored clothes, "because a random act of kindness can brighten someone's day," said Corrine Sikora, supervisor of student services with the school district.

Posters have been placed in schools, reminding children of the day and to be on the lookout for opportunities to do something kind for someone else.

"The acts can be small or big," said Sikora. "Any person can be involved. Each child can be empowered."

Open a door for somebody and say hello, take a shopping cart back to the store for someone or bring in a neighbor's trash can, suggested Bucks County Commissioner Diane Marseglia. The board of commissioners recently approved a proclamation for the special day.

"I think RAKDay is important because our technology and social media-dominated society has become somewhat cold," Marseglia said. "RAKDay provides an opportunity for a human connection. Plus, it feels good for the giver and the receiver." 

Bucks' RAKDay was spurred by the family of Abby Schumer, a 10-year-old New Britain Township girl who died of cancer in 2012. She would have turned 14 on Nov. 19.

To honor their daughter, Meg and Mike Schumer created Abby's Light Foundation. Among the foundation's work is providing toys for patients at Doylestown Hospital's Della Penna Pediatric Center.

"Abby herself was a very unselfish, giving person," said Mike Schumer. "This is what she would have wanted."

RAKDay has "truly turned into a global event," Schumer noted, with people from New Zealand and Hawaii participating.

"It grows every year," he added.