You can have my voice

I dont have much to say other than, Compassion you can have my voice.  So people if you want to sponsor a child you’ll see a link on the lower left of this blog. If you want do donate do it HERE.  Do Something.

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I do have some new music but who really cares.

peace

Drew

Haiti

I had forgotten about this trip to Haiti. It will be a year November when I made that trip.  It was a trip that changed a lot about me. I need to remember. When people ask me about it I say it is the one of the darkest places that Ive ever been.  But the more I think about it the more I realize that it wasn’t all  dark. I know compassion isn’t that dark and I saw them  So what is it that I concentrated on so hard that clouded my vision? If there is no darkness would I know where the light is. I hope so.  The picture above is one of the churches that we visited.

Compassion Website

So today I got real bored and decided to redesign the compassion website. I know nothing really about building a website. I’m sure there are rules that your are supposed to follow. Oh well. You will just have to live with it.  So here it is. And while you are looking at this take a look at this www.compassion.com and sponsor a kid.

Stop thinking about it.

Today is Compassion Sunday. I wanted to give you an opportunity. I know that many have thought about it. I know you have wondered if you are able to give up a little.  So I will make it real easy. Click here and sponsor a child.

Here is what you do.

Do something today!

They can say it much better than I so here you go. Happy World Malaria day 2009. Give up ten bucks today.

Compassion International INVITES YOU to help end malaria!

“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.” Every African knows this is true because mosquitoes carry malaria—a tropical disease that kills over 750,000 children each year. That’s one child every 30 seconds. In Africa, mosquitoes make a huge difference in the lives of poor families and children. And it all starts with a tiny bite.

Malaria begins with a bite. We believe that generation change can end malaria with an even bigger bite. The BITE BACK campaign is mobilizing youth around the country to purchase 300,000 mosquito nets to protect African children from malaria. Let’s be the generation that ends malaria. Let’s BITE BACK and donate now.

i wish i were talented

This week is going to be a short week for me. On friday I will be heading to see this guy in Austin TX. Yee Haw.   I am really looking forward to it. It’s kinda spur (this isn’t a joke here) of the moment kinda thing. I am realizing that when you dont have another person in your life or any kind of extra curricular activity you tend to throw your self into your work. Sacrificing you sanity for the company allowing it to change your mood from when you walk in to when you leave. Some say I need a vacation. It’s been awhile since I’ve taken any length of time. A weekend here an afternoon there.  Anyway when you aren’t away from someone you start to stop caring about being away. Does that make sense?  Well I’m going to start doing it more often. No guilt here. My hope is to take a mini sabbatical in the fall. Use up some of those weeks I’ve been given.

in other news……

My running has been getting better. I have a great friend that I run with on Thursday nights. We’ve turned it into an event. I’m still down 22 lbs or 9.9 kg and counting. Every jean I tried on today  fit. I ended up not buying any.  Turned out I just  wanted a new pair.  Not a very good reason.  I’m thinking of selling my car. I cleaned out the attic of crap so now its on to the one big item in my garage.   This seems like a good idea. I’ll let you know how it goes. I think for 2009 I need to do something big. I just don’t know what it is yet. Oh and these guys support compassion so big ups to them.

Your moment of zen…Now get up and dance

going to make this quick

I rode in a van for what seemed an eternity. We loaded into a place in Charlotte NC.  Everything is mostly up. I’m rooming with a kid named Adrian. I dont know anything about him and tonight I went out for a snack and he was asleep when I came back.  I dont know if I’ll run in the morning. Chip may be there I should have said something. I wrote some thing today…well I wrote more….Ben our compassion dude gave me a book. Skeptical guide to poverty…I’ll post a link to it in the morning. I’ve been reading it on the way down here.  I’ve got to go to bed.

ACTOR MALE

Nearly half of the people in the world live on less than $2 dollars a day.  So what.  Tonight we are starting a little different. Don’t worry this isn’t a sneak attack or a guilt trip.  It is my belief that you just didn’t know.  Didn’t know what to do with a problem that’s so big.  You have enough trouble just trying to get through your last semester of school before you came here.  With prom and that history test and whether she was going to be here.  I just have to believe that you didn’t know.  Didnt know the problem of poverty of people who havent heard the gospel.  That you didnt know that there is something that you can do and it won’t cost you a thing but your time and your prayers.

really thinking about this

you saw the shirt and chuckled a little bit. I am really contemplated this. Many of you know the legend that is me when it comes to grammar spelling etc.  In Elementary school I was given a commodore 64 and before that I had one of those word processors. I learned how to type by 8th grade and forgot one thing. How to do the simplest things like the English language.  Anyway I have embraced it. It still frustrates me when I try to but sentences together and don’t get it.  Guess what I was an elementary school teacher. Makes you nervous right. I’m that teacher they are talking about that they are trying to get out of the class room.  Ok back to the point. I have been thinking of what I could do to help the world hunger initiative and compassion in a monetary way. Yes I will always pump sponsorship but I was looking to do something else. Well this is it.  I am thinking about a line of these shirts and any profit goes to that cause. Strange I know but I was talking with Andy about it today and more and more I’d like to give it a go. I had said I wanted a little project and what better way to experiment than to do this. If it doesn’t work I  thought I could just give them away. I’m going to think about that tonight instead of editing those dang pictures.  I’m still at the office and I need to get home. So I guess this is good by. I’ll post a couple for you to look at. This could be real lame or have something to it. Look for some here tonight.

Hey and if you need a desk top photo of me just let me know more people should put my head on their desktop.  Peace

P.S. May have found a bug. I can’t add a link to a person. Andy was who I was trying for….I’m testing out this new Safari….Hmmm WordPress you working on this?