Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

I made donations to four different groups today, two political and two charities but picked partly for political reasons. I try to donate annually (more or less depending on my budget), but having realized a while ago that (because I am not going to be itemizing tax deductions) it doesn't matter whether I do things by December 31st, I lost track. I still don't like the frantic "donate in the next four days!" emails that go out at the end of the year, but I won't like them any more or less if I have already donated to the causes I support.

(I try to pick organizations/causes I can make ongoing donations to--this saves me some executive function, and means an organization isn't going to fritter away most of a one-time donation on future requests for money. I figure that there are more worthwhile causes than I, or any one person, can support, and I'm not going to worry about whether one is 3% better than another.)

What reminded me of this is that I have been listing donations, political and otherwise, in the same Excel spreadsheet that I use for tracking calls to legislators and other political activism, so the tab is there when I check on how many calls I've been making, or whether I've already filed a public comment on a specific issue.