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December 12, 2011
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Just 1 Card To Say Happy Birthday… December 12, 2011 – Posted by crosby2126
I have a Aunt who is deaf and lives alone. To communicate with her when we visit we write in her notebook. Her birthday is in March.

Last year she was 96 years old. I thought about things I could get her but aside from food there isn’t much she needs. So, I decided to I send emails out to a few friends. I told everyone about my Aunt and asked them if they could please take a few minutes and help celebrate her birthday by sending a card to her.

Little did I know how this one request would impact so many, especially my Aunt! My friends asked their own friends to join in. The cards started arriving every day for a month!! My Aunt was so excited! She couldn’t believe so many people were thinking about her. She recieved over 50 cards!

Something so little, that takes just a few minutes to do, ment the world to her. Many peoples lives have been touched by this gesture, not only my Aunt’s. A card really does say it all. Here we are approaching March… her birthday is here … I can’t wait to send out that email….My Aunt is going to be 97 on March 13th.

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The 9 Dwarves: A Legend of Conservation

December 12, 2011

We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. — Aldo Leopold

~~~~ Good News of the Day: With multinational companies accelerating exploitation of oil, timber and minerals, activist Ladislas Desire Ndembet decided that he had to supply a stronger local voice in the West African nation of Gabon. Financed out of his own modest salary from running a cleaning business on the side, Ndembet’s NGO is an inspired movement to conserve some of the world’s largest intact tropical rainforests for carbon capture and endangered species protection. Environmental journalist Daniel Glick gives an intriguing glimpse into Ndembet’s conservation efforts, starting with Gabon’s legend of the nine dwarves. http://premiere.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=169F71D:C3009629A010612C49A93BB5B91A8038B4B847859706E37D&

~~~~ Be The Change: Make an increasing shift from interacting with natural resources as commodities, to using them with love and respect.

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