Challenge Update:
I wrote my Tuesday poem - this is much more challenging then I thought. The process, for me, is to think about it for a couple of days. Write it on that Tuesday some time in the mid day in a quick dash. Edit it to something poem like. Call Lynn and read it to her voice mail. And then check it off on the calendar. I can see where I could forget this on a busy Tuesday - but I am trying to add it to my To Do list so it doesn't fall off the track. It is interesting that it takes several days for some idea to percolate - nothing to earth shattering, but something that would be easily captured in a few brief lines. Again, I am grateful that I am reading them to her voicemail because I would be TOO shy to read them to her in person.
Other updates: Went to yoga, wrote letters, did a after Olympic gymnastic hands in the air happy dance after hiking through a trail I had never hiked in Lake Leatherwood, wrote two friends about creating a retreat, designed the coolest To Do list, and have not figured out how to exercise everyday other then walking to the mail box.
Donors Choose Challenge:
Well, it is the 17th of October. I have just a few days left to raise enough to help ONE MORE CLASSROOM and if you are reading this you know I am talking to you. It takes MINUTES to do and it goes DIRECTLY into a classroom. If you don't know Arkansas 37.4% schools failed - we are ranked 48 out of 50. Your $5 donation goes DIRECTLY into classrooms that are desperate for help.
I know you have a million organizations asking you for your money. I know that this has been a hard year, but if you could help one child wouldn't you? If you knew that your money would make a real difference wouldn't you give it? With Donors Choose it does - the teacher gets it for projects that are meaningful to their students.
So, go look under your couch, in your change bowl, and at the bottom of you purse and give that much. Thank you.
OMG Award of the Week:
This was tough because we had the ridiculous parents who thought their child went up in their hot air balloon, but really just seek crazy amounts of media attention, but the award goes to the Louisiana judge who denied the interracial couple their marriage license because of what it would do to the children. See, this is what living in the South is like folks.
