Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: October 15, 2008
When I informed a handful of people I would be penning a post on Dorothy Green who founded – “Heal the Bay” – some undoubtedly wondered why since this year’s blog action topic is on “poverty”.
As I pointed out in my “introduction” at the top of the blog today, there are many forms of “poverty”.
For [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: October 15, 2008
When we think of poverty, many disturbing images float into the consciousness.
Images of young children starving in the streets of an impoverished country, for starters, seem to exemplify the extreme horrors of it.
The thought of young ones being without a crumb to nourish their bodies turns my stomach.
At a time when there is so much [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: October 15, 2008
What a novel idea!
If you surf to – freerice.com – you can test your facility for words – and at the same time – make a contribution to feed hungry mouths of the world.
For example, when you surf to the automated web site, just click on a word to test your knowledge of its meaning.
If [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: October 15, 2008
“I suggest that we are thieves in a way.
If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else.
It is the fundamental law of Nature, without exception, that Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day; and if only everybody took [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: October 15, 2008
Walk down any street in any big American city and a panhandler is bound to ask you for spare change.
The beggars have all manner of excuses to wangle the cash out of you.
An old familiar one,
“I’m a quarter short for the bus.”
Curiously, if you offer up a bus token, they balk.
Ah, gotcha!
Then, there are those [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: October 15, 2008
Ideas are like blossoms
Nurture them
And they’ll bloom into beautiful bouquets of flowers
Julian Ayrs
Divine Grace
Collection of Poems
2008
