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Day 1981: #RAK16

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu

It’s 12 : 10 PM on day 1981 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read 1 Timothy 6, learn one new thing – When you cut an onion, it releases a gas called, ready for this, Propanethiol S-oxide. When mixed with certain enzymes in the onion, it creates a sulfur gas. These gases then get to your eyes and create a mild acid which irritates the eyes. – watch Morning Live – yup you guessed it my hero without a cape Catherine Constantinides was on the show talking about her win at the Ubuntu Awards and her work with the #SaharawiPeople (my family often jokes that I only switch on the TV when Catherine’s on and I can’t even deny it because it’s the truth at this point i’m not even ashamed of it anybody who’s not a fan of Catherine’s has some serious problems LOL 🙂 I sincerely aspire to her humility and character) – have breakfast, and work on my 25 Smiles Campaign – yesterday Catherine Cook donated $25 (thanks SO MUCH Catherine your ongoing support means a lot ) which brings the total raised to $2 662 only $3 588 more to raise by 10 Jan 2017 (SO SO SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has supported this campaign so far ).

Recently I took part in #RAK16 started by Brent Lindeque – the concept of RAK is simple: Do a good deed, post it on social media and nominate your friends to do good deeds too using #RAK16 at the end of your social media postings – my family (asked by me) handed out apples to the car guard and the lady who sells toothpicks outside our local frozen foods store. I nominate all you reading this to go out there and do random acts of kindness.

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Video about #RAK16

Day 1948: Brent Lindeque, The Good Stuff and the GoodThingsGuy

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“People don’t know what heroes are anymore. The “heroes” the world worships are the self-inflated, hedonists given to narcissism with a penchant for crying ‘Peace, peace!’ while coddling a lust for war in their hearts.

Look for the true heroes.
They have been and will be in our midst, but they’re harder to spot.

The true heroes are predisposed to serving not self-gain. They are seldom loud and bombastic. The true heroes make sacrifices for the greater good, but don’t mistake their gentleness of spirit for weakness. If it becomes necessary, they will fight, to their last breath, for peace.”

– Jacqui-Mackway Wilson

It’s 11: 40 AM on day 1948 of my journey towards independence and I managed to have breakfast, pray, read Galatians 1, learn one new thing –The ability of worker ants to carry many times their own body weight is well documented, but new research on heavy-lifting ants reveals that the neck joint of a common American field ant can withstand pressures up to 5,000 times greater than its own body weight.– and work on my 25 Smiles Campaign – $715 raised so far only $5 535 more to raise in 361 days (SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has helped out so far ).

Recently I’ve become somewhat obsessed with The Good Stuff and GoodThingsGuy.com – a radio show and blog by Brent Lindeque – Brent not only highlights the good happening everywhere he also goes out there and does good….this dude walks his talk and I absolutely love him for it. Thank you Brent for being you and for all the good you do I know you didn’t sign up to be anybody’s hero but you’re totally one of my heroes.

Day 1828: Rethinking Homelessness

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Everybody has a story – that’s what I keep realizing.

It’s 12 : 05 PM on day 1828 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray, read Luke 28, publish my Disability of the Day feature, learn one new thing –In general, young salmon eat insects, invertebrates and plankton; adults eat other fish, squid, eels, and shrimp. Unlike all other salmon, the sockeye salmon has a diet that consists almost entirely of plankton. – and promote my Educate Generations campaign – yesterday Catherine Cook donated $20 and today Wayne Mansfield donated $50 (thanks firstly to God [I knew you would show up for me I just didn’t expect it to be this fast LOL] and then to Catherine and Wayne thanks so much for the ongoing support you guys I know I’m a bottomless pit LOL but it’s for an amazing cause 🙂 ) which brings my total raised to $4 900 only $100 more needed to get to $5 000.

Yesterday I read Rethink Homelessness – a poignant blog post by Brent Lindeque about homelessness in South Africa – before reading that blog post I, like most people, assumed that all the homeless people and panhandlers I saw on the side of the road were either drug addicts, alcoholics or just plain lazy I feel so bad about it because I was making assumptions about those people without knowing anything about them just like people often do to me I vow never again to judge people on the label that society puts on them.