Just a drop
This is what it would look like if all the water on this planet was gathered up into one drop. And there isn’t any more being made, folks.
Word of the Day
May 7, 2012
2 Years Later, Grim Photos From the BP Disaster
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/05/greenpeace-bp-photos
Absolutely horrifying.
May 7, 2012
New Bomb is an “Upgrade” Over the Previous Underwear Weapon
The CIA, with help from a well-placed informant and foreign intelligence services, conducted a covert operation in Yemen in recent weeks that disrupted a nascent suicide plot and recovered a new bomb, U.S. officials said.
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April 25, 2012
Aunt Flossie
My aunt Flossie was the center of our family. The one who made meatballs, over decorated for Christmas, was strict and permissive at the same time, took care of every kid that came within range, made orange soda slushies while we watched Dukes of Hazzard, was the original home crafter before it became an industry, raised her family almost single-handedly, opened her home to us, and was constant and ubiquitous in our lives. Until today.
April 20, 2012
Support Well Aware | SaraHickman
http://showerstrike.com/SaraHickman
I don’t know about you, but I take clean water for granted — extra long showers, brushing my teeth, watering the lawn and flowers, drinking a nice big glass with ice. I even waste it doing things like hosing down my dirty driveway. And every time I do, I can’t help thinking that there are literally billions of people who have never seen as much clean water in their lifetime as I waste every year.
For less than you probably spend on cable TV in a month, you could provide clean water to a family in east Africa for 20 years. Seriously. How could you not?
April 18, 2012
Dick Clark, Entertainment Icon Nicknamed ‘America’s Oldest Teenager,’ Dies at 82
Wow – ironically, I assumed he was older than 82. I guess it’s because he was so young for so very long.
April 17, 2012
Justice for Cisco
APD officer drew his gun on me in my driveway when I came from my backyard to get something from my truck yesterday. He was responding to a domestic violence call and came to my address by mistake.
While I was at gunpoint my dog came from my backyard barking at the officer. I yelled for the officer to not shoot my dog, that he will not bite, but the officer immediately shot and killed my dog right in front of me.
I was unable to stop or restrain Cisco because I was being held at gunpoint.
March 12, 2012
This photo makes me smile and cry at the same time
Tokie Sakamoto reacts as she flips through an album of her family photographs, which were washed away by the tsunami, after receiving them from volunteer in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on February 20, 2012. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
[via boston.com]
February 13, 2012
Trapped Puppy Rescued from Underground Pipe
Oh, man — the crying puppy is just heart-breaking. Thank goodness this has a wonderful ending.
January 31, 2012
After nuclear disaster, a harsh winter for Fukushima’s abandoned pets
I am constantly horrified by “rules” that say you must leave your pets when you are evacuated from a disaster. I don’t care what anyone in “authority” says to me — Diego will be firmly in my grasp if I have to evacuate, along with any other pets in my neighborhood.
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October 6, 2011
What do you say?
I have composed about a dozen different, long-winded blog entries in my head while in the shower… while driving to work this morning… tossing and turning in bed last night. In each one, I expounded on some quality of Steve Jobs, some way that his work touched my life or the lives of others.
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