A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown

It’s 6: 35 PM on day 285 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself an egg– sunny side up – and toast for breakfast, listen to music, read And God Laughs and  Little Wonders–the first blog I could totally relate too while the second one I LOVED because I could feel the love this mom of five had for her family in every word she wrote 🙂 – tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – after thirteen LONG days the donation drought is finally over ‘Anonymous’ made a donation – thank you Anonymous 🙂 –   feed myself rice and curry for lunch, prepare my Kid of the Week feature for tomorrow – this week’s ‘Kid of the Week’ and I have something in common stay tuned to see what it is 🙂 – listen to music some more,  feed myself bun, potato salad and grilled chicken for dinner and brush my teeth once more.

A few weeks ago I launched my reading challenge and asked you to read one book per week for the entire year and in keeping with the theme of reading I will be creating a new page on this blog which will feature all the books that I can remember reading over the course of my twenty year life because I believe that someone who reads is more likely to act in the face of injustice because he/she has learned empathy. Do you have friends yet to be discovered and shared sitting right on your book self?

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!