Do do, do do do do do do!
I was looking at some volunteer website, and said “Mom, we should host a foreign exchange student or something. We need to do more.” And she replied, “Well, I was thinking that if the city closes the library, then we could get a foster child. That way, I’d be home for when they got out of school.”
And I said, “A foster baaaaaaby?” She said no, but she’d go as young as elementary school.
And I said, “You could get two siblings, since we have two open bedrooms!” She didn’t reply.
I love being able to do good things for other people. It is good to make a difference, no matter how large or small. And it is nice that my mom could take the awfulness of the library being closed, to make a difference in someone else’s life.
What do you do to make the world a better place?
Wednesday, 25. November 2009
I have dedicated my life to service and education. From working with organizations like growfood.org, the student conservation association (thesca.org), being a camp counselor, working in environmental education, and now pursuing a graduate degree in environmental education to hopefully use in conservation, and to serve underserved populations.
While I can’t afford to give back financially (most of the work I do is as an intern with housing and a small living stipend) I do focus on buying used, local, and handmade goods whenever possible, even if it costs more. I live simply and in harmony with the environment as much as possible and look to increase this in my life, with an eventual dream in of living in a yurt or eco house of some kind, heating with a woodstove (most likely, especially if in New England as the second growth forest here benefits from thinning to help it age into a healthy, diverse old growth forest, thus I will make sure to use self-harvest or sustainably harvested wood), hopefully living off the grid, and homesteading in the sense of preserving and producing most all of my needs and shopping locally or bartering for other needs.
I can’t wait for that day, I love simple living.