Two reasons for this title today, friends. One: The March challenge of the week is to sponsor a girl so that she may receive an education. Whatever this means to you. You might begin sponsoring a child through a nonprofit and monthly financial donations. You might begin tutoring or mentoring. You might take some extra [...]
Tag: environment
Impact
Hi! If you haven't read my post from last week, go ahead and do that first. Okay... Great. Last week's challenge was donating to a teacher in any sort of way. I ended up getting prayer requests more than anything and talked a little with a friend frustrated with the way her school was running [...]
Empowering
March's theme for our year of sustainability based on this plan is about empowering women. I love that. I love that in a year of mostly focusing specifically on environmental practices, we are taking the time to talk about gender and race and how environment is tied in with all of life. I got really [...]
Plants
Jumping right into it, I'd like to announce to the blog world that I've taken on a year of sustainable living journey on my personal instagram, which I've made public (at least for now, until I freak myself out again having it public lol, right?). Anyway it's right here if you want to follow along. [...]
the spiritual connection
So, I mentioned in my last post that I was going to bee school, I think. Well, hubs and I went to bee school! We took the NC certified beekeeper written exam and hopefully passed it. We sat in a room with over 100 other people while various beekeepers gave lectures for 9 hours. It [...]
Well, hello.
Well, hello. I fell off the face of the blog earth. I don't think anyone really cares (and I don't mean this in a depressing way. I just write for myself a lot these days.) Anyway we finished our road trip and I went silent. I went silent because I didn't know what to think [...]
The convincing problem
I'm reading a book about climate change. Scientifically, climate change is scary. But this book is giving me so much anxiety and dread for our environmental future. Like, I'm picturing a desert wasteland where we fight each other for food and water. At some point in this fight, you've gotta be the optimist. I already [...]
