COUNTING BLESSINGS

[flyingfaeries]

If it's showing at a theater near you, you have to watch God Grew Tired of Us.

It documents the lives of three Sudanese teenagers who are relocated to America after spending a decade in a refugee camp in Kenya.  The documentary is painful to watch. First, it sets the scene, describing the journey of the Lost Boys of Sudan, who are driven by war (

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[anonymous]

The perils of the desire to preserve self-interest. Altruism is truly dead.

YSA

[flyingfaeries]

you're still around?! :)

i refuse to believe it. my school is filled with altruistic people. getting an ivy league education and then going off to work in africa for minimum wages is practically the definition of altruism. :)

[anonymous]

haha You don't get rid of me that easy. I still read you regularly, haven't been commenting because I have been swamped with work.

well, perhaps not dead then, but certainly on its way. The exceptions to the rule do not disprove it.=)

YSA

[flyingfaeries]

haha! well good luck with work then.