Social Justice Blog

It's a busy day at work today, so I don't have time to say much. However, I did want to post a link to this blog, which might be of interest to those who want to keep in touch with humanitarian and other concerns around the world: http://www.uusc.org/blog/hotwire.html.

With Open Arms and Open Hearts

Please read this message from Melissa Ethridge about the upcoming inauguration. I found it helpful:

The Choice Is Ours Now

Meet Zach

A video will play when you open up his website, so make sure your speakers are on:

"He's being a kid. He's being the kind of kid he wants to be."

I stumbled across this kid on YouTube, where I enjoyed a couple of his videos including one where he explains how he packs the backpacks...that video is on his website under "backpacks."

Been to Denver Recently?

If you haven't, you ought to check this out.

A Good Idea

Enough Food

Someone I know online is in the practice of re-plating her leftovers after eating at a restaurant:

http://replate.org/

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/441533/replating_as_a_gift.html

She added to the second article above that she marks the container with the date and time and what is in it as well.

Not a bad idea. However, if I am eating at a restaurant, I often am spending money that I haven't budgeted, and I am counting on eating the leftovers for the next day or two to make the money stretch as far as I can.

If one doesn't have any food on hand, maybe passive help will work?http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1743880