Dr. Tererai Trent

An inspiring story: Triumph of a Dreamer.

little people:.MICKEY MOUSE OPERATION:.basique

twits

Great thoughts on twitter from Skye Jethani. Applicable to more than just twitter: Why I Don't Tweet...

HT: Reclaiming the Mission

...and beyond

The subtitles don't exactly add. But it's still a great scene.

scarcely fill a cup

"The world is full of dark shadows, to be sure both the world without and the world within ... But praise and trust him too for the knowledge that what's lost is nothing to what's found, and that all the dark there ever was, set next to light, would scarcely fill a cup."

Frederick Buechner
(emphasis mine; online source)

forch (forch). verb.
1. being roughly forced. ex. "They really forched me on that subway!"
1.1. related: being forked with something hot. ex. "Thankfully, I was forched instead."
1.2. related: a style of preaching. ex. "You didn't preach tonight, brother, you forched!"
2. opening the skin by itching. ex. "Stop itching that bite or you'll forch it!"
3. slang: rural, mid-American euphemism for 'pitch forked.' ex. "Why ain't youse-guys get that stuff forched upindere?"
4. ?????? (contributions welcome)
also, forch (n.), forcher (n.), forchy (adj.)

(HT: Strong Odor's love of language.)

enemy. jack johnson

just in case...

you haven't heard: Bon Iver, "Flume," from For Emma, Forever Ago.

Action...not intention.

"Assurance is not to be attained so much by self-examination as by action." (123)

"Godliness consists not in a heart which intends to do the will of God, but in a heart which does it." (348)

from Religious Affections, by J. Edwards.

NASA = The Tower of Babel

Cost of NASA in today's dollars: $806.7 billion. (wikipedia: NASA Budget)
Cost ending world hunger: $30 billion per year. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

NASA = The Tower of Babel.

More:
from the above FAO article:

in 2006 the world spent US$1 200 billion on arms while food wasted in a single country could cost US$100 billion and excess consumption by the world’s obese amounted to US$20 billion.

and consider this:
Cost of the 2009 U.S. "bailout": $7.5 trillion. (ABC) That's 200 times the amount needed to end world hunger.