A Mending Shift

a bird sings, not because if has an answer to give, but because it has a song to sing … this is my song

Lessons in Contrast: Will that be bottled or parasite water?

| December 23, 2008

Share The global bottled water market grew by 7% in 2006 to reach a value of $60,938.1 million (60.9 billion).  The market grew by 8.1% in 2006 to reach a volume of 115,393.5 million liters in water bottled. To date, there are over 81 bottling companies* all scrambling over this $60 billion. In addition, I [...]

Our Little Conspiracy

| November 19, 2008

Share This photo sickens me. I imagine my mom, my wife, my daughters having to drink this kind of water in this kind of way. This photo sickens me. Does it sicken you? In light of this photo, this is also what sickens me: Americans spend an average of $450 billion on Christmas. To solve [...]

When a Building Becomes an Injustice

| November 3, 2008

Share I was just looking over a Christian relief organizations holiday “catalog” of how you and I can participate in helping those in the Third-World. Something really stuck me when I saw the below cost breakdown: $100 – One Emergency Shelter $750 – One Well $7,500 – One House $20,000 – One School $25,000 – [...]

Same-Sex Marriage, Prop 8, and Jesus’ Words

| October 21, 2008

Share I am amazed. Since California legalized same-sex marriages in May, 2008 and an estimated 22,000 people of the same sex have wed…our social world and order hasn’t collapsed or fallen apart, as some feared it would. In fact, I have hardly noticed any difference in life at all, except the amount of money and [...]

One Line #2 (okay, this one is two lines)

| November 11, 2007

Share “So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be; will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?” ~ Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can’t Wait