I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way. – Whitney Houston

It’s 6: 51 PM on day 445 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, drink coffee by myself, prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature, feed myself French fries for breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck –feed myself French fries and carrots for lunch, watch TV and tweet about my campaign some more– still no luck.

A few days ago my brother was watching Legion of Superheroes – his new favorite cartoon – and I looked at him and said you can be a hero too all you have to do is do good remembering that today I smiled because I know that I have planted the seeds of kindness and compassion in him. Are you teaching the children in your life that there’s a hero inside every one of them?

Gratitude Weekly December 2, 2011

• Thank you God for always being here for me.
• Thank you mommy for helping me do things I have not yet learned how to do.
• Thank you daddy for paying for everything I need.
• Thank you Neethu –my sister – for kicking me in the butt when I feel sorry for myself.
• Thank you Kevin –my brother – for carrying the laptop from the bedroom to the dining room every morning so that I can use it.
• Thank you Amanda – our housekeeper – for helping me when mommy and daddy are at work.
• Thank you Tilla Brook,   Christian Hollingsworth, Maria Savva, Brian Elliot, Chris, Kaiju,  Tommy Jameson and Leslie Ramos for retweeting about my campaign.
• Thank you   Patricia Singleton, Justina Valentine, RockstarsTribe, Brian Elliot, Colette Caddle,  Amy Hale, Stan Faryna Susan Mazza, Samantha Bangayan, Jenelle Ramsami,   M. Illani Manshoor, M. Faizan, Laura  and Scott S. Cooper for tweeting/retweeting links to my blog posts.

Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://twitter.com/Nisha360

If you’ve given to my cause or you can’t give now, please help me by sharing my cause with others. You can tweet about it like my friend Stan Faryna. This is the tweet he uses: @Nisha360 is a brave, smart young woman trying to make a better world for us all. Please help her do an amazing thing. http://bit.ly/hC7vOu

Stan’s very sweet for saying so, but feel free to write what reflects you best.

Thanks to all my friends out there who are helping me make my dream come true: to make a better world for all of us!