Aug 23, 2010

The Brick

The Brick!!


Read this today and don't delete it
even if you are too busy!! You'll see.




THE BRICK






A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down






when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door!



He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry driver







then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against






a parked car shouting, 'What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?' The young boy was apologetic. 'Please, mister....please, I'm sorry but I didn't know what else to do,' He pleaded. 'I threw the brick because no one else would stop...' With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car.. 'It's my brother,' he said, 'he rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up.'






Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, 'Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me.'






Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay 'Thank you and may God bless you,' the grateful child told the stranger. Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.






It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar.. The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message: 'Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!' God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It's our choice to listen or not.






Thought for the Day:






If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.






If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.






He sends you flowers every spring.






He sends you a sunrise every morning Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!






Send this to every 'beautiful person' you wish to bless.






God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow,sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.






Read this line very slowly and let it sink in...






If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.






Pass this message to seven people except you and me.





You will receive a miracle tomorrow ( just do it)!



"Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart."
Anonymous

Aug 21, 2010

Quotes

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...
they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

— Thomas Jefferson

loved you the minute you were born. Then I saw your face and fell in love some more. You were only a minute old but I knew I would die for you & to this day I still would ♥ Put this on your status if you have children you love more than life♥


Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.

When we are listened to, it creates us, it makes us unfold and expand.

~ Brenda Ueland

Aug 17, 2010

The Power


A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret

We are excited! The new book, The Power, is being released to the world today!
To celebrate its release, we are sharing a preview of what is contained in The Power.
By clicking on the link below you can read the foreword and the introduction of The Power,
and you can also watch The Power book trailer.

The Power book trailer has been created as a powerful tool for you to use to lift your feelings.

If you are feeling a little down, or if you want to lift your feelings higher,

watch The Power book trailer and in 90 seconds it will lift your feelings and your frequency.

The better you feel, the higher your frequency - and the more amazing your day and your life will be.

You deserve to have whatever you want, because you are meant to have an amazing life!

You are not meant to suffer or struggle. What would be the point of your life?

You are meant to be, do, and have everything you want - no exceptions, no limits!

Decide right now that you are going to have an amazing life.

Decide right now that you will not accept anything less.

And know that the entire universe and all creation want to give you an amazing life!

Dollars want you! Health wants you! Happiness wants you!

The life of your dreams has always been closer to you than you realized,

because The Power - to have everything good in life - is inside you.

It doesn't matter who you are, where you are, or what has happened in your life

- you have The Power to the life of your dreams.

May the joy be with you,


Rhonda Byrne
The Secret and The Power... bringing joy to billions

Visit The Secret site | World Languages | Latest News

Watch The Secret trailer | Watch The Secret | Own The Secret

Link to The Secret | Contact Us

What you love and God's Will for you are one and the same

"What you love and God's will for you are
one and the same."
- from The Passion Test

It's not an accident you love the things you
love. It's not an accident you care about the
things you care about.

Neither is it an accident when you find your-
self miserable or unhappy. This is the sign
or signal that you are off the path of passion.

Follow the loves in your life and you will have
all the joy, all the success, all the wishes
of your deepest heart.

Click Here to Enjoy the Wisdom of Success

With our love and appreciation,

Janet and Chris

Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
Co-authors of the NY Times Bestseller,
"The Passion Test - The Effortless Path
to Discovering Your Life Purpose"

Aug 15, 2010

Close the Loop - What You can Do...

What You Can Do...

Ceramic Mugs
Bring your own ceramic coffee mug to meetings or the quick markets and ask if you can refill that instead of using a Styrofoam cup.

Cleanup
Use cloth towels instead of paper, they can be used again & again.

Donate
Clean up & donate your gently used toys to a charitable group or hospital. Bring old books you don't want to your library, check with your local library first to see if they'll accept them.

Grocery Shopping
When you go shopping, bring your own cloth bag or recycled grocery bags. Most grocery stores pay you a few cents to use your own bags. Congratulations to Kinsley's ShopRite in Brodheadsville, PA for purchasing new shopping carts made from recycled plastics!

Mosaic
Save broken & chipped plates, tiles & stained glass to use in surface decorating something old with a beautiful mosaic.

Paper Recycling
Save paper. Use both sides of every sheet or cut it up in small squares for note paper.

Rag Bag
Keep a rag bag of old, torn clothes and have a supply of rags to help clean house or use for messy projects.

Refill
Ask retailers to sell products in refillable containers.

Repair
Ease the burdon on the environment by fixing broken toys & other items instead of discarding.

Reuse
Take packaging "peanuts" to pack & ship businesses for reuse.

Six-Pack Rings
Before you toss six-pack rings into the garbage, cut all the circles with scissors so animals and birds can't get caught in them.

Slate
Save old SLATE roofing shingles for people to paint on.

Tire Swing
Hang an old tire swing for your kids, they'll love it! Make sure to drill a hole in the bottom, so the rain water can escape. Supervise them when swinging so they don't hit the tree trunk! Ouch!

Whoops Paint
Most paint stores have mixed tint paints that are new, excellent quality paints, but didn't meet the customers exact color needs. You can buy gallons of this paint for a few dollars and complete a small room, use for craft projects, use as an undercoating, etc.

Other Money Saving Tips:
If you have an activated CELL PHONE, you can unsubscribe to the service and they legally
MUST
keep your phone active for 911 calls only. You won't be able to call anyone other than 911 for emergency calls, and you'll save money by getting no monthly cell phone bills!! Check it out in your area first! (If you would like to donate old cell phones to people in abusive situations, for them to have 911 access, call Woman's Resources in Monroe County, PA at (570)421-4200.

Close the Loop

PLASTIC FENCING
www.plasticfencing.us
Recycled plastic fencing made in Pennsylvania.

POCONO FREECYCLE
The concept behind Freecycle is simple: you have something you no longer need (a couch, a crib, a CD, a computer) and you wish to "recycle" it rather than throw it in the landfill. Or you are looking for a specific item (a couch, a crib, a CD, a computer), and you don't mind getting it for free. Pocono Freecycle is the place where you can post notices about the items you'd like to give away as well as things that you need. The only catch is that it has to be FREE!

POCONO RECORD Slideshow
Data released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shows that somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. View the slideshow!


Green Living Now
www.greenlivingnow.com is a small, family owned, organic and natural products online store.

GreenSense
Resources for Sustainable Living
Easy access to everything you need to live in harmony with the Earth - Learn how people are changing their lives and creating richer, more sustainable communities. Discover green crafts, recipes, simple living, frugality, recycling, wild foods, organic gardening, gentle parenting, self-directed learning, personal growth, meditation, alternative health, and environmental action. Find green, earth-friendly, products of all
kinds, handmade crafts, recycled art and gifts.

Habitat For Humanity
Ask your building contractor to donate excess building materials to organizations like Habitat For Humanity or others instead of landfilling usable construction debris. Please call George Kerrick in Monroe County Habitat for Humanity at 570-476-9846.

Kid-At-Art
The Imagination Factory is an award-winning art and crafts site for kids, parents, and teachers. Visitors learn how to make art using easy to obtain solid waste as a source of free materials.

Langan Art
http://www.langanart.com
Artist Mark Alan Langan uses recycled corrugated cardboard to design artwork which is truly inspiring!

Mustang Alley
A non-profit horse rescue located in eastern TN, dedicated to the safe rescue, rehabilitation and placement of abused, neglected, unwanted & slaughter-bound equines of all kinds.

Recycle Everything Book
www.recycleeverythingbook.org
Can everything be recycled? Yes, but it’s going to take imagination and innovation. Right now, we are taking what we want from the planet, using it, and throwing it away. It’s a one-way street from resource to landfill. But if we think there can’t be any other way, we are lacking imagination. Once a thing can be imagined, it can be engineered.

Recycling Super Guide
http://www.recyclingsuperguide.com/
Learn how to recycle, and why recycling benefits the environment.

RecycleBank
www.recyclebank.com
Provides communities with a cost effective and environmentally conscious solution to the rising cost of waste collection.

Repair Launch
www.repairlaunch.com
This company aims to repair electronics for people and/or show people how to do it themselves. If your iphone or other electronics device breaks, you can come to us for services or you can use by our repair toolsand repair parts to fix it yourself. Many of the Apple products such as the iPhone parts, iPhone 3G parts, iPhone 3Gs parts, iPhone 4G parts, iPad parts, Mac parts, iPod parts and so on have many similar characteristics and learning how to fix one can greatly increase the odds of being able to fix another one. Many of the same tools are used as well so by ordering our repair kits you insure yourself all the equipment needed to become a savvy tech repair person. Or, as we prefer to call it, a responsible consumer.

Siberini Recycling
www.siberinirecycling.com
Recycling glass, vinyl siding, roofing shingles, drywall and other hard to recycled construction & demolition materials.

Simple Living Network
Providing tools and examples for those who are serious about learning to live a more conscious, simple, healthy and restorative lifestyle.

Sustain Lane
www.sustainlane.com
Find green products and businesses, share reviews, connect with people living green.


Sustainable Group
Offers recycled binders, cardboard binders, recycled folders and green office supplies.

Sustainability Store
www.sustainabilitystore.com
Directory of socially and environmentally responsible products and services.

Tire Playground - Maryland
http://www.mde.state.md.us/Programs/LandPrograms/Solid_Waste/ScrapTire/playgrounds.asp
A total of about 7,000 scrap tires went into these projects. About 1,000 scrap tires were used in the construction of the playgrounds and the equivalent of over 6,000 tires were used as cover material under some play equipment.

Online Worldwide Directory Listing -
http://directory.classifieds1000.com/all/poconos
Classified directory for the Poconos:

AgMap
www.agmap.psu.edu
Promoting Pennsylvania Agriculture - helping to connect small local PA Ag business, includes informative Penn State Cooperative Extention Publications.

The Green Bride Guide
www.thegreenbrideguide.com is a comprehensive, easy-to- access resource for couples looking to plan a green wedding. It includes advice, pictures from real green weddings, an interactive look book of eco-friendly products, and more!

Enmassemedia.com Eco Printing Company
www.enmassemedia.com
Environmentally friendly printing company specializing in short run full color printing using 100% post consumer recycled paper. Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Earth Smart Games
www.earthsmartgames.com
The toys of tomorrow. Give the gifts of nature that's fun and educational with the Earth Smart Series of board games, card games, trivia games and adventure games. These are the kids games of the future. Environmentally novel games that promote education, stimulate the brain and are fun too.

Green Uses for WASTE
www.greenusesforwaste.co.uk/
A practical guide for green uses for waste. GreenUsesForWaste contains over 60 articles written by our experts who continually update and add new content.

Wool Clothing Shop
www.woolclothingshop.com
Providing a healthy, natural and environmentally friendly clothing alternative. Bringing you Icebreaker merino wool clothing for young and old. A leader in environmental sustainability.

Nutiva
www.nutiva.com
Nutiva offers the best Coconut Oil, Super Food, Coconut Oil Virgin, Hemp Oil, Hemp Protein, Organic Coconut Oil, Virgin Coconut Oil.

Paper Recycling Serving Farmington Hills
www.paperdragonrecycling.com/Farmington_Hills_48331__483.html
Paper Dragon Recycling is a paper, plastic, metal and electronic pickup service located in Wixom MI.

Electric Bikes & Scooters
www.eco-wheelz.com
eCo Wheelz specializes in electric bikes, scooters and other eco-friendly forms of transportation. Choose from a wide variety of electric bike models or convert your standard bicycle into an e-bike.




WEBSITE BUILDING WORKSHOP ATTENDEES - The following links are provided as a service to the entrepreneurs who have recently attended Close the Loop's workshop to start or build their own internet business:

Desicon Associates
www.desiconassociates.com
Offers Drafting and Design services to the private individual as well as the General Contractor, Interior Design & Architectural Firms.

Junkologist
www.junkologist.com
Since 1996, A Pickup Man, Junkologist has been helping people empty and divert household goods.



Close the Loop - Links to our Friends

Close the Loop - Links to our Friends


iConserve Pennsylvania
www.iconservepa.org
Despite the gains, conservation is precarious. Habitat, scenery, and the quality of our air and water are constantly at risk. Worldwide problems like climate change have local ramifications. Poorly planned development and 21st-century living patterns have a huge cumulative impact. Invasive pests and plants seriously threaten the ecological balance. In addition, many people are becoming disconnected from nature and spending less time outdoors. Who will care about the degradation of our environment and its serious consequences? The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources leads everyday efforts to engage the public in its ongoing quest for conservation. Won't you join us? Become a PA Icon today and find out how you can take conservation personally.

Close the Loop - Links to our Friends

Close the Loop - Links to our Friends

Favorite Links

Better World Club
www.betterworldclub.com is dedicated to balancing economic goals with social and environmental responsibility. We support a cleaner environment and alternative modes of transportation. We provide our customers with high quality, good value and environmentally sensitive products and services. We act as an advocate on behalf of the consumer and demonstrate our social and environmental commitment by donating an amount equal to 1% of our annual revenues toward environmental cleanup and advocacy.

CivilizedNation.com
CivilizedNation.com is dedicated to finding and reporting stories of sustainable success from around the world. Our mission is to show REAL, FUNCTIONING ENVIRONMENTALLY-SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS to problems that face us in the 21st century. We believe that by describing SOUND, ECOLOGICALLY COMPATIBLE models of success, no matter how small, people from around the world can learn from that success and build upon it for the benefit of their own organizations, communities, and cities thus leading to a more socially and ecologically responsible world.

Earth 911
Making Every Day Earth Day - No matter where you live across the US, just enter your zip code and you'll find a wealth of information in your local community about recycling information, buying recycled products, household hazardous waste, kids' section, energy conservation, composting, dozens of other resources.

Container-Recycling.org
CRI is a non-profit organization that studies and promotes policies and practices that shift the social and environmental costs associated with manufacturing, recycling, and disposal of container and packaging waste from government and taxpayers to producers and consumers. CRI plays a vital role in educating policy makers, government officials and the general public regarding the social and environmental impacts of the production and disposal of no-deposit, no-return beverage containers and the need for producers to take responsibility for their wasteful packaging.

DEP
Use shredded newspaper for animal bedding.

Dolphin Blue
Provides environmentally responsible office supplies, contributing to a sustainable planet. Every purchase made on products provided by Dolphin Blue creates a sustainable world. We offer all types of office and printing papers, envelopes of all sizes, remanufactured toner cartridges, refurbished laser printers, and many other desktop and office filing supplies.

Eco-Artware
Gifts for him, her, the home and business from eco-friendly materials by 30 innovative craftsmen.

EcoFirms
A non profit eco activists website that aims to connect eco friendly companies, organizations, and individuals operating in US and Canada for the sake of cleaner and safer environment in North America.

ECOSMART®
www.ecosmartus.com is a privately owned manufacturing, distribution and wholesale company of electric tankless water heaters with exclusive modulating technology headquartered in Miami, Florida.

E/The Environmental Magazine
www.emagazine.com
A source for news and features on a wide range of environmental topics and green living tips.

Everything Green Weddings and More
www.everythinggreenweddings.blogspot.com
Everything you need to know to help you plan your green wedding and more. Whether you are planning a green gala or an eco event, stop by often for more tips and tricks. You'll also find lots of advice about living green.

Follow Your Bliss
www.followyourblissstore.com
A Unique shopping excursion awaits at Follow Your Bliss! Men and Women's Clothing, Accessories, Jewelry, Yoga clothes, and Spiritual & Ritual Items. Follow Your Bliss provides old-time customer service, with real-time respect to current environmental,cultural, societal, and human sustainability. Organic - Recycled giftwrapping on request.

FREECYCLE
It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.

GREATGREENGOODS
www.greatgreengoods.com - They scour the internet to find the best in eco-friendly products for the green consumer. Their products generally fall under two main categories. Products that help you live lighter on the earth or products made out of recycled or sustainable materials.

GRINDZILLA
www.grindzilla.com - The Grindzilla can efficiently recycle those materials from C&D waste, house renovations/demolitions, pallet disposal, plastic recycling, pallet recycling, tire shredding for TDF and asphalt production and bio-energy as well as many more uses!

Campus Loan Predators: Get Out the Bait and Traps! | Written Off - America and Americans

Campus Loan Predators: Get Out the Bait and Traps! | Written Off - America and Americans

Aug 13, 2010

Positive self attitude~ Learning to Love yourself~findind your self-worth~ Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

I consider myself a valuable and important person, and I feel that I'm at least as good as anyone else of my age and background. I think I've earned the respect and consideration of my peers and co-workers. I sometimes have a positive influence on other people because I try to respect their feelings and don't run roughshod over them. I have a pretty definite idea of what is right, and I'm able and willing to defend these views. At the same time, I feel that I'm fairly flexible, and I'm willing to listen to other points of view without feeling threatened and under attack. I enjoy new and challenging tasks and don't get upset when things don't turn out perfectly right away. I have patience.

Aug 10, 2010

Blog Roll ~Green House

Saddhant Sadangi favorite Quotes on FB

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure. " ~ Agent Smith (The Matrix)

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed" - M.K. Gandhi

"Only when the last tree has been ...felled and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money" - Greenpeace

"A hamburger is only a cow which has been separated from it's family and murdered!" - PETA

"When will we learn how to start living as ONE? People, animals, Earth, trees, everybody TOGETHER. Because, only TOGETHER WE CAN!!! "- Self

""Until people are killed for lack of space, I'll keep putting the animals first. Until people are tortured and murdered on the scale animals are, I'll keep putting animals first. Until people make me smile the way animals do, I'll keep putting animals first." ~ Animal Outreach.

"Taking a fish out of water is like drowning a kitten in a bath, it's horrifically cruel. Fish feel pain too, just like every other animal. Leave the fish in the water and Go Vegan." ~ Dean Edridge

"I am a vegan for precisely the same set of reasons that I am not a cannibal." from Dan Cudahy
When we all talk about "saving the environment" in a way it's misstated because the environment is going to survive. We are the ones who may not survive. Or we may survive in a world we don't particularly wanna live in. ~Kenny Ausubin (The 11th hour)

"Monkey-wrench a bulldozer and they call you a vandal, spike a tree, and they call you a terrorist. Destroy a forest, mountain, or a river, and they call you a logger, a miner, an engineer." Captain Paul Watson

"Meat is the dead body of a person who wanted to live"~Unknown

Aug 6, 2010

Namaste from Larry at Buddhahands



"As the leaves drop in the autumn and the snow flakes turn to snow,
You too have special gifts to release and just let go,
As the rain falls from the clouds and each river flows to sea,
Inside your heart is love and the power to be free...

As our Earth orbits the sun and gently dwells in outer-space,
All troubles can dissolve to reveal your inner-grace,
As the light explodes in glory at the start of each new morn,
You too have life’s permission to refresh and feel reborn,
As the never-ending cycle of birth, death, awake and sleep,
Eternity hums her tune and beckons...‘Journey deep...’

As a child laughs with pure innocence and we peel back every layer,
We find ourselves, beyond the noise, to be a mighty player,
As the wind sings through the tress and the rocks stand bold and strong,
You too can find beyond your thoughts, there’s really nothing wrong,
As the rain soaks dried up lands and the lightening parts the sky,
Sometimes it is fine to pause and rest, and feel no need to try,

As great underwater worlds intensely sparkle, dance, and play,
You too can choose to live beyond, the forceful Ego way,
As the seed becomes the flower which then reaches for the Sun,
Living from you heart can be discovery and fun,
As the stars shine in the cosmos and bring wisdom to our skies,

There truly is another world... so breathe and close your eyes,
Life...mystery...unfolding...endless loving flow,
Peace is here for you, when you choose to, just let go..."