Wednesday, Chat Day, and I need to remind you of something.

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ITEM: It’s been nearly a year since we unveiled A Brand New Day, and in that time, three or four subjects clearly have caught your eye.

There have been the polls, of course, which naturally have drawn big-time responses — in fact, we’ve currently been asking you to weigh in on whether the correct name of our best-known body of water is Lake Coeur d’Alene or Coeur d’Alene Lake.

The result of that debate will run here Thursday, but I want to make another point.

Even leaving out the polls, other things have brought emails pouring in — and two of those subjects have been discussed recently.

The issues of suicide, particularly among the young, and everyday civility in society apparently have found an audience that keeps saying the same things: “Stick with it. Look deeper. Write more about it. This is too important to let go.”

I appreciate the feedback, truly, and I wanted to use my first spot in the lineup today to answer you.

No, I won’t just do a couple of columns and wander on to something else. These things clearly hit home with our readers, and that makes my answer easy.

Two opposites: Suicide and civility.

How can we prevent one and encourage the other?

We’ll stay engaged with both subjects.

They’re that important.

ITEM: Apparently I can’t get away from cats.

Even on a day when I had no plans to mention Sammie the World’s Greatest Cat, we have a feline issue.

OK, now I’m not going to do this again — just because we can’t — but a very nice lady wrote to ask if I might want one of her litter of kittens.

They’re gorgeous and, frankly, I’d love to have a couple, but Sammie has made it clear this place belongs to her.

She likes just about everything (pizza, in particular), but she’s put her paw down on other cats in her home.

Sammie would accept a llama before she’d approve a kitten.

Still, here’s the message from Susan Pare ...

“I am soooo hoping to find just the right family for my kittens. I have had to decline some people based on their answers to my application. Yes, I have an interview process and contract for adoption.

“These kittens are 14 weeks old and have excellent social skills. They are smart, playful, like to cuddle, have had vaccines, been de-wormed and are on very healthy diet of food and goat’s milk.

“Please consider adopting one. Or, if you know someone interested, please pass along my information.”

Email: spare53@frontier.com

Phone: 208-772-3791

Done ...

But please, folks, I can’t run any more of these — however much I adore the kitties.

ITEM: It was wonderful to be buried in happy responses to the column about that Anne Murray song, “A Little Good News.”

Reader Lisa Gould put it this way ...

“Thank you for reminding me to take time to reconnect with feel-good music because you’re right, our everyday news can really get to you if you let it.”

Besides Anne Murray, though, quite a few readers suggested other songs that might start your day just brilliantly.

They came from all genres, but I think my favorite (from an anonymous reader, sadly) was the very unusual 1968 rock song, “Tighten’ Up.”

Not sure why this thing hit a nerve, but it’s fun, it’s audacious — the lead singer introduces himself in the first line — and there is a non-stop beat that, yeah, might make you want to bounce through a day.

It starts this way, with a hammering beat that would get the grumpiest person shaking ...

“Hi everybody. I’m Archie Bell and the Drells, from Houston, Texas. We don’t only sing, but we dance just as good as we walk.”

Archie needs some work on his grammar, but you just gotta wiggle with the “Tighten’ Up.”

Not a bad thing.

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Steve Cameron is a columnist for The Press.

A Brand New Day appears Wednesday through Saturday each week. Steve’s sports column runs on Tuesday.

Email: scameron@cdapress.com.

Twitter:@BrandNewDayCDA