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Two poems about Hope...
...because it seems like they are necessary right now.
Hope is a Tattered Flag
- Carl SandburgHope is a tattered flag and a dream of time ( Read more... ) -
Poetry Friday - "The Altar"
A friend of mine died this week. ter369 lost her battle with cancer and died on Sunday. She was a lovely, bright light and I will miss her. She loved books, opera, reading, writing, Harry Potter, travel, photography and understood the wonders of real mail. She was an amazingly brave person, and faced her illness with a dignity and sense of humor I ( Read more... ) -
Poetry Friday - Naomi Shihab Nye
I recently got a great book Leading From Within: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Lead. It's a book of poems that have been selected by a range of national, international, and local community leaders. On the left page there is a small profile of the leader and then a piece written by him/her on why she/he is drawn to this particular poem. On ( Read more... ) -
Burma Cyclone, Midwest Tornadoes, China Earthquake - What you can do
There have been, lately, a number of really critical natural disasters world-wide, and so I thought this would be a good time to do one of my periodic charitable giving posts. As always, I will leave this post public, and I encourage folks to add other good charities in the comments ( Read more... ) -
Poetry Friday - Democracy (Langston Hughes)
Democracy
- Langston Hughes Democracy will not come ( Read more... ) -
Good news on Thalia_dMuse
Hi all:
I got a voicemail message from thalia_dmuse's mom saying that she had come through the surgery well, and had a pretty sore throat, but was otherwise resting comfortably. So, that's all good :-)
If anyone wants her address so you can send her a get well card, drop me a line at vivwiley AT yaooo(dot)com
Cheers!
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2007 Charitable Giving Post
It's hard to believe that it's already the end of the year again. I know that many of you may be thinking about making donations to charity. As has become something of a holiday tradition for me, here's a post with some resources to help you think about charitable giving ( Read more... ) -
More resources for giving to Fire Relief efforts
For those of you interested in ways you can contribute to helping communities in Southern Cal recover from these awful fires, here's a great page of links of relief and rebuilding efforts for the California fires: Southern California Grantmakers' listing of philanthropic efforts.
There are also links at my previous post about this. If you are ( Read more... ) -
The California Fires
The numbers are staggering. As of today, the devastating wild fires in California have burned more than 410,000 acres (over 640 square miles), destroyed more than 1,500 homes, forced over 500,000 residents to evacuate (some estimates are as high as 1 million displaced), and have caused at least $1 billion in damages. And many of the fires are not ( Read more... )