When one wants to find their way back while moving through a maze of tunnels or in the forest, a trail of pieces of bread were said to be dropped at intervals in order to show the way back.

While flopped back on the sofa and flipping through the hundreds of TV channels, you may have seen some government sponsored commercials suggesting some easy modifications to our lives that can burn up a few more calories. Small steps add up. By the way, as a certified channel flipper myself, did you ever notice that all the commercials seem to come on at the same time on all the channels? Yesterday I elected to let Pat drive home from Christina's and I'd walk back home to try to help burn off the bacon and eggs. I now realize that I could have accomplished more had I had her turn the engine off and I pushed the car home. More exercise, some savings on gasoline and of course I would have helped make the planet hospitable to our existence for a nanosecond longer in eternity.

If you don't walk much, try it if only to see more detail of the neighborhood than while driving. Walking along Summit, I became aware of candy wrappers every few houses. Soon the container was seen on the sidewalk.  A few more houses later a different color of wrapper was seen every few houses. Someone had been munching down these candies and tossing their garbage along, caring not about the disrespect to property owners, other pedestrians and the planet in general. I was reminded of the commercials that small steps add up. Do they teach this stuff in schools anymore?

I always like to give the benefit of the doubt to people. Perhaps they were unfamiliar with Waukesha and were only leaving the trail to help find their way back to where ever. Too bad they weren't munching on a sandwich instead.