January 2010
20 posts
grace, gratitude, generosity
just some thoughts for the day.
for obvious reasons, i absolutely believe in the plight of humanitarian aid and the work of non-profit organizations. but i also believe that there exists a common flaw within them through no fault of their own; that while changing ‘the system’, culturally embedded habits and heardened hearts, the individuals (like me) that make up these efforts are...
rush shape the story, write me in
I have a friend from high school who now works with the mentally handicapped, and he says his autistic patients have a particularly heartbreaking awareness of time’s passage, as if they never got the mental filter that allows the rest of us to forget about mortality every once and awhile and just live. One of Rob’s patients always asks him the date at the beginning of the day, and at...
introduce yourself
i often find it hard to remain inspired and motivated in these ‘great’ canadian winters - even though there’s something so serene and beautiful about the white mess outside. luckily i’ve got a group of friends and aquaintences who pick up where i slack off with their always evolving creative projects, which i so admire and love them for. check these out:
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it's true and okay
me, today
all because invisible children won $1M from chase community giving. we had been pursuing it since before i left the office and so i can’t accurately explain how truly ecstatic i am about this gift and the subsequent opportunities that will follow it.
if you voted, thank you. if you’ve prayed for us, thank you. if you’ve supported me, thank you. smiles like this are...
again
please please please vote for invisible children, right now, tonight, so that they can win a million well deserved dollars from chase community giving. it literally takes less time than it took you to read these sentences, so what are you waiting for?
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/598099
unparalleled concepts
there is plenty that is still foreign to me when it comes to the concept of love. but what i do feel certain about is that (as a lovely man named bob once told me and some others) it does and does and does. and it cannot exist anymore than it can grow until an individual is prepared for compromise and the graceful act of absorbing the repercussions of their sacrifice for the sake of a smile that...
friends on both coasts
le sigh
also...
have you? if not, please visit the below link and spend a few seconds helping us win a million dollars. that’s a lot of change in more than one mask. http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/598099
just for now
i have this friend who is close to my heart but quite far in distance who regularly makes an effort to ask “how are you doing?” via highly anticipated facebook messages. i know that she very-much so cares about my response (even though the question is typically a cordiality amongst friends and strangers), but i also know that this simple question serves me beyond the courtesy of...
yes please
let there be grace
i suppose it has become a bit of a habit for me to ask people to show me their hearts using their wallets as a medium, but i don’t believe these favours come without good reason. please, i encourage every single one of you reading this entry - my friends especially - to be a beacon of light to those in Haiti that are enduring an immense period of darkness by donating to relief efforts at...
critical decision
earthlings
when age and reason translates to choice - and we choose to consume and exploit animals - it is often justified by the discomfort and inconvenience that living otherwise would bring to us.
and i am no exception. and this is NOT okay.
“We need another, a wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals…We patronize them for their incompleteness - for their tragic fate of having...
i need a guru
specifically one who is well versed in HTML coding/manipulation of this machine we know as tumblr. i have (literally) been trying to master the ‘likes’ and ‘comments’ section on my theme for weeks and can’t. and what is this disqus nonsense?
anyway, if you can assist, shoot me an email at andrea.dyer[at]hotmail.com - because Lord knows you can’t comment me the...
rebekkah
this is the worst time of year, because in it, people are prone to ask themselves too many questions - mostly out of boredom - and fumble too many times to find the answers which can angry up one’s insides. but sometimes neat things happen in these winter months. it was about this time almost two years ago that i met my first truly brilliant human being.
now perhaps she wasn’t smart;...
if you see this girl:
& if you are as american as i suspect that you very well may be, do not under any circumstances agitate her desire to remain living amongst you by offering her anything like or in likeness to: - food - friendship - enticements that may make the working world appear to be attractive - beards
just because she isn’t wearing a lumberjacket and/or a racoon on her head does not excuse the...
happy new year
