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- My favorite quote(s)...
- Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
-Kahlil Gibran
"With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'" - Mitch Hedberg
- If I could live anywhere... (why?)
- I'd live where I'm needed most.
- Others describe me as...
- sweet, nice, kind.
- I most feel the presence of God when...
- I'm fully involved in working with my church's youth group. Or when I'm on my own in natures, especially in the woods.
- I'm passionate about...
- working with teens and those who need help most, advocating for human rights, and doing what I can to improve the lives of others.
- In the future, I will be...
- where God has called me to be.
- My biggest struggle with discerning/following "my call" is...
- how I'm going to get there - especially financially.
- A person/people who has/have helped me grow in my faith...
- there are actually a lot of people who have helped me.
- Because of my faith, I...
- see the world in a different perspective.
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Buying positive
Lately, I've been trying to become more aware of what I'm buying. I try to buy items that are fair trade. But, I especially want to stay away from items that have been made in sweatshops. I was happy to stumble across an article on Slate.com that addressed this issue. For anyone else who might want to be a bit more conscious in their buying, here's the list of retailers they found online:
Planet Threads: http://www.planetthreads.com/
Fair Indigo: http://fairindigo.com/
Indigenous Designs: htt… Continue
Planet Threads: http://www.planetthreads.com/
Fair Indigo: http://fairindigo.com/
Indigenous Designs: htt… Continue
Posted on March 1, 2009 at 4:08pm — 2 Comments
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