national marrow donor program
May 5 - May 19, 2008 is Thanks Mom awareness and recruitment campaign.
Please consider joining the marrow donor Registry.
The first 10,000 people who join online will receive a free swab sample kit.
ancient struggle
“I’m only human, man.”
“It’s funny how people only say that after they do something bad. I mean, you never hear someone say, “I’m only human” after they rescue a kid from a burning building.”
The United States of Leland
a letter found from FutureMe.org
Dear FutureMe,
I hope you are enjoying yourself. I know that right now you are groping around a lot, reading old books and thinking old thoughts, and there is almost no free brain space whatsoever. Just in the last day you thought you could become Plato, Martin Luther King Jr. and Moliere, and this morning were reading Goethe on the subway. At this point, what is old is synonymous with what is good, which keeps pulling you away from the present. In fact, I half don’t believe that first sentence which instructed you to enjoy yourself, since so many people you
genocide, never again.
“From knowledge to action, there’s an abyss.”
Professor Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor
If you haven’t already, please watch The Devil Came on Horseback
National Geographic Channel
Friday, April 18, 2008 at 10pm ET/PT
Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 12pm ET/PT
Friday, April 25, 2008 at 6pm ET/PT
donate, write to our world leaders, educate yourselves, advocate to others, do the right thing.
Winter Nest
winter lungs. i can’t sleep unless the air is cold. as much as i try to avoid the sun, the brighter days lighten my moods and i often catch myself smiling by surprise. the biggest downfall of spring, however, is bloody allergies. other than that, my hair’s been especially feathery lately, léontine and lush.
The Orchard
My po’ diary is not completely working properly but it will have to do for now. This deserves a photo! Huzzah!
Someone gave me a very nice gift, a sun jar! This is especially useful and lifesaving because I am sometimes afraid of the dark. Good night!