It is only eleven days until Thanksgiving. Where has the time gone? I love that there is a time set aside that as a country we can take a day, regardless of our religion or ideologies, and just be thankful.
What a wonderful time of year...
For the next few days I will be reflecting on ways we can show our gratitude. Today, I started a reflection on my facebook page of what I am thankful for and will list each day a diferent note of gratitude. If you have a facebook page, join me? We can spread a wave of gratitude. In your first post just announce your intention...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Some Days It's All About Making People Happy
I'd like to remember how easy it is ... every day ... just to share a laugh, a smile... even with a total stranger. It makes the day so much better, doesn't it?
This is Matt, I found him on youtube but you can follow him around the world in this video...and read more about him at wherethehellismatt.com
This all led me to another thought...I need a crazy way to travel the world and get paid to do it...
This is Matt, I found him on youtube but you can follow him around the world in this video...and read more about him at wherethehellismatt.com
This all led me to another thought...I need a crazy way to travel the world and get paid to do it...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Ohio Drama
I've never given much thought to the Ohio Department of Agriculture...I mean, how would they affect my life? I'm almost certain that John and Jacquiline Stowers wouldn't have thought that the ODA would affect their lives either prior to December 1, 2008 when 12-13 SWAT team agents swarmed their home. The reason? According to the court, search warrant and affidavits, county health department officials and an ODA enforcement agent said, "they believed the Stowerses were operating a retail food establishment without a license.."
The Stowers maintain that they were running a private members only food co-op.The public could not buy food there.
Food, cell phones, the children's computer and the family's entire year's worth of stored food, including meat that they'd raised and slaughtered to sustain them, was confiscated. The Stowers children who are home schooled have lost their lessons that were on the computer. And while that may not sound like a big deal, trust me, having experienced home-schooling three children...the computer is the school. Another issue I have with the computer being taken was that the children's father is currently serving in Iraq and that is their main mode of communication with them. The children and their mother are actually living with their grandparents while he is out of the country.
I read about this horror at Granny Miller's blog...and kept thinking...a decade ago, that could have been our home, our family. There are so many similarities...I home-schooled, co-oped, and stored a years worth of food... and no, I don't live that life any more...I garden and Kroger instead of co-oping, my daughter is in a public school... but I could still feel the horror that I know those people felt.
This really shouldn't be happening in our country...
Really.
I shudder to think that this could have ended like Ruby Ridge...thankfully, it didn't.
The Stowers maintain that they were running a private members only food co-op.The public could not buy food there.
Food, cell phones, the children's computer and the family's entire year's worth of stored food, including meat that they'd raised and slaughtered to sustain them, was confiscated. The Stowers children who are home schooled have lost their lessons that were on the computer. And while that may not sound like a big deal, trust me, having experienced home-schooling three children...the computer is the school. Another issue I have with the computer being taken was that the children's father is currently serving in Iraq and that is their main mode of communication with them. The children and their mother are actually living with their grandparents while he is out of the country.
I read about this horror at Granny Miller's blog...and kept thinking...a decade ago, that could have been our home, our family. There are so many similarities...I home-schooled, co-oped, and stored a years worth of food... and no, I don't live that life any more...I garden and Kroger instead of co-oping, my daughter is in a public school... but I could still feel the horror that I know those people felt.
This really shouldn't be happening in our country...
Really.
I shudder to think that this could have ended like Ruby Ridge...thankfully, it didn't.
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