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What Do You Need? What Do You Want? How Can You Help?
This lovely idea helped me tremendously the last time it made the rounds, and I hope it will help others.
I don't have a lot of cash, but I can bake, I can sew, I can be a friendly voice on the internets and other things of that nature.
So ask. What do you need?
Originally posted by jfargo at What Do You Need? What Do You Want? How Can You Help?
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Spirit Day
Today is Spirit Day, an official time to tell kids and adults alike who are being bullied into hopelessness, it gets better.
It does, I promise. I never thought, when I was 17 and thought I was too ugly, too fat and too weird to ever find anyone ever, that I would be happy, that I would have the life I have now. I sat there with a knife at my wrist ( Read more... ) -
good advice
From ysabet wordsmith, some good advice on how we can all do a little bit and get community.
http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/1948735.html
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Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.
Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and ( Read more... ) -
First World Solutions to First World Problems
As my beautiful wife and I were sitting in our bedroom after breakfast this morning, I was peeling labels off her prescription bottles, as you do before chucking them in the recycle bin. I casually mentioned "I wish there was a way to reuse all this things, like a way you could turn them into the pharmacy to be sterilized and reused, or to be ( Read more... ) -
How we went out to buy ice cream and came home with Gelato
We were down to our last five dollars and there was an outcry for ice cream. My intrepid wyfe and myself headed out to go fetch the desired product and decided to take the longer way, heading to a late night grocery rather than to the Walgreens we usually go to grab that sort of thing.
We slowed down to let a tiny dog cross the street, and once he ( Read more... ) -
On self-reliance, moping and other things, 2 whole days and counting til my baby is back home.
For those of you that haven't heard (which is like, maybe two people, heh) Ardyn got a fantastic job back in January and spent 10 days in London getting to know her co-workers and touristing around looking fetching in London. And, oddly enough, it was an ok time for me, too, didn't get a whole lot done, but I got to putter around and she was home ( Read more... ) -
Hope to Haiti Peacock Dress challenge
Originally posted by harmanhay at Hope to Haiti Peacock Dress challenge
The first forty people who can raise $5000 each for the continued relief effort in Haiti will spend a week there from June 20th, 2011 and help rebuild a shattered community with their own hands. Demi and I intend to be on that plane...
....and that involves raising $5000 each, plus the ( Read more... ) -
I have no words but others do.
There is little I can say about the recent events in Arizona that has not been said better by wiser and more well written folks than myself ( Read more... ) -
Reminder!
As requested, a reminder to lay out purple for tomorrow, October 20th.