The Changes

In 2 more days, I will be speaking in front of 500 delegates at UBC's The Briefing to present my cause to get new socks for the homeless in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside through Raincity Housing.

We have 4 more days to go before we deliver the socks to RainCity Housing!

So gather up your socks and send them down to the Vancity's Head Office at Terminal Avenue and Main Street by 20 December 2010! 

Sock it to us!

Watching this video made me laugh, cry, swell up with appreciation for the beauty of the human heart and be extremely proud of my financial co-op, Vancity.

Idid it!!! finally.. I launched a website for my jewelry company QuenchDesigns.

I wish more people would get out and donate blood. I go about every two months, and yesterday made m y 21st or 22nd donation. I started up a Partners for Life program at work, to invite and encourage the people at my company [over 100 staff] to go out and donate, and I got about 9 donors last year. 9. Well, at least it is over the average of 3 percent, but come on!

The problem is, I don't know how to cajole people in a nice way, I am not one of those people who is always smiling and surrounded by people clamoring for my attention. Well, not outside of the classroom anyway. So I have a hard time getting people to come out and give on a regular basis.

Happy new year, everyone.

I've thought that being on a neighborhood house's board, its possible to bring out more care and compassion to anyone in the community.

During meetings, we discussed how can we make the neighborhood house more responsive. Doesn't it mean to care more for each other? To make a better board in order to make a better community. How can we do it though? Giving is simple and it maybe takes awareness and sensitivity and little time. Giving what is needed at the time.

I realized upon waking yesterday morning that I have been caught up lately in what Buddhism would call the world of Hunger.

What is a Buddhist world? I hesitate to say I have any definitive grasp on it, but my basic understanding is that it is essentially a breakdown of the states of mind in experience. In the Buddhist construct, there are ten: