Inspiration 365 Days!

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• Donate your professional clothes to an organization that helps people get back into the workforce.
• Give gently worn home furnishings or household appliances to a person or family who might need them or donate them to an organization.
• Take warm clothes, blankets or food to a homeless person that you often cross paths with.
• Donate toys and books to a homeless organization. Toys and books are just as important to kids as food and shelter.
• When shopping, buy a couple extra non-perishable food items and take them to a food drive or pantry.

If you wander off too far, my love will get you home.
If you follow the wrong star, my love will get you home.
If you ever find yourself, lost and all alone,
get back on your feet and think of me, my love will get you home.
Boy, my love will get you home.

If the bright lights blinds your eyes, my love will get you home.
If your troubles break your stride, my love will get you home.
If you ever find yourself, lost and all alone,
get back on your feet and think of me, my love will get you home.
Boy, my love will get you home.

A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher,
Ridin’ on a midnight bus bound for Mexico.
One’s headed for vacation, one for higher education,
An’ two of them were searchin’ for lost souls.
That driver never ever saw the stop sign.
An’ eighteen wheelers can’t stop on a dime.

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway,
Why there’s not four of them, Heaven only knows.
I guess it’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you,
It’s what you leave behind you when you go.

Women from the community of Payatas, Manila’s main garbage dump, for years eked out a living by weaving bits of cloth dumped by textile companies into multi-colored rugs.

Last year, their lives took an unexpected turn after a group of young professionals formed Rags2Riches.

— Reuters

What were once scraps of cloths that will join the rest of the country’s garbage are transformed into useful and elegant pieces of rugs by the women of Payatas and Rags2Riches. These rugs are made in solid colors and durable cotton or brushed. Each piece went through careful weaving, quality control, and selection.

Jerry was released from military service after having fought in the war. He was excited for the chance to finally go home and yet afraid. Hesitantly, he made a call to his parents from Los Angeles Airport.

“Mom, it’s me, Jerry.”