Tag: social
group name: makeadifference
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April 17, 2006 02:37 PM EDT --
Macy stood beside the door to blow her nose on the remnants of her tissue. There was no stopping the tears but she could at least save herself a bit of humiliation by not sniffing at her guest. Timing . . . more
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December 29, 2005 03:49 PM EST --
It was warm, so I sat outside, to eat my lunch in the sun
I met a man who'd lost his way, and didn't know any one
He swallowed his pride, avoided my eyes,
and in a tiny voice, shared with me his . . . more
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March 19, 2006 01:13 PM EST --
We need each other. We depend on others to live. Others depend on us. This is the way of our society.
Our local newspaper, from which my dad retired after decades of hard work, . . . more
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April 18, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
In addition to the traditional offerings most generous, doting parents lavish on a child, mine infused a lifeline to their unrestricted generosity. They gave me the world, by allowing me to see . . . more
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April 10, 2006 04:38 PM EDT --
I understand the importance of honesty. Intelligent, self-respecting people speak and live the truth. Those negative comments I made about taking things seriously haunted me last night, when I realized . . . more
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December 04, 2006 10:36 AM EST --
I made a new friend the other day.
I had walked to the drugstore. I always walk, if I can avoid driving. I don't like to give my money to the oil companies and I can use the exercise. . . . more
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February 24, 2006 02:54 PM EST --
When I was growing up I loved playing with my Barbie dolls. My friends and I had many clothes, accessories, her home and furniture so we could make up various scenarios with never ending possibilities. . . . more
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March 05, 2006 11:20 AM EST --
She stays because he says she can't live without him
and he has made it so it is true,
She stays because he has told her he will . . . more
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January 07, 2008 08:06 PM EST --
The other day I came across an article about Dinner Day in the latest edition of Cooking Light (the article doesn't seem to be available online, but there is a Dinner Day website ). Founded . . . more
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March 30, 2006 07:57 AM EST --
Cecilia Fire Thunder, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, has become an angel for all women.
In response to Governor Mike Rounds' signing of the anit-abortion . . . more
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May 21, 2006 01:55 PM EDT --
By Heather Moore
Senior Writer
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
As we learn to treat one another with kindness and respect, we should remember to extend the same compassion to animals. Like . . . more
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February 27, 2006 12:25 AM EST --
I saw him sleeping alone
Dried blood on his pants
The train that bumps along
Never wakes him
Don't sit next to him
Who knows were he's come from
Or where he is going
Do you know . . . more
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January 05, 2007 12:02 PM EST --
Saddam Hussein is dead
Prayer hanging from his lips
Midst cheers and chants from men
Saddam Hussein is dead
My stomach twisted sick
The moment that I heard
Before a pondering thought
My . . . more
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June 16, 2006 09:27 AM EDT --
In a couple of days I will change my Gather Name from Bill's Spirit back to Bill S. The picture will remain the same for a few weeks to help people with the transition.
I've gotten the feeling . . . more
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January 21, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a Meth lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining County and he asked me a rhetorical question.
'Why didn't we have a drug . . . more
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June 23, 2006 10:02 PM EDT --
The following is an excerpt from PETA president Ingrid E. Newkirk's newest book, Making Kind Choices: Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life Through Earth- and Animal-Friendly Living, which can be ordered . . . more
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December 18, 2006 02:11 PM EST --
Time Magazine's Person of the Year has been nominated and it is You. Yes YOU... for your contribution to online social networking.
I was listening to BBC's World Have Your Say asking . . . more
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July 09, 2008 01:42 PM EDT --
The commercial goes something like this:
A mother stands in frustration.
"I don't know what to do with you! We've talked to you, we've grounded you, we took away your game . . . more
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May 13, 2006 02:12 PM EDT --
Between allergies, physical disabilities, low tolerance for tyrannical management and my own inner restlessness I have worked in over a hundred different facilities in America. I changed jobs an average . . . more
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April 06, 2007 07:34 AM EDT --
I am curious about individual responsibility. Not civic groups or political organizations--- individual people. Is there any one thing that you do, routinely, to make the world a better place. I have spent . . . more
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