February 2012
1 post
Kiva - Credit Mongol LLC
Mr. Batkhuyag, 40, is a taxi driver and works around Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. For many years he has been running his business every weekday. He lives with his wife and his three children in the a slum district. Lately his taxi has been getting old and is damaged in most of its parts. It has a bad influence on his earnings and the quality of his service. Therefore he decided to...
January 2012
2 posts
Kiva - Pro Mujer Bolivia
The communal bank “Melodia” is starting its third loan cycle with Pro Mujer, as part of the Andes Regional Office. It is made up of four members and is directed by a board of directors headed by Martha. The businesses that are put forward by members of this communal bank are varies, amongst them are: used clothes sales, potato sales, dressmaking, glove embroidery, chuño sales and...
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December 2011
1 post
Peace Prayer - Antonio de Montesino
Jesus Christ
Center of our Hearts
And Word made flesh
Mindful of our Dominican Friars
Who first came to the New World
We praise you for filling them with your love
And calling them to bring Good News
To the people of Hispaniola.
We bless you for opening their eyes
To the injustices and oppression of the day
And announcing to all the shared humanity
And dignity of the indigenous...
November 2011
3 posts
Pursue Me
The Lord leaped down from heaven’s throne to be espoused to our frail flesh
His ocean’s mercy kissed the coast of souls as countless as her sands
He beckons me to dance with him and follow where his footsteps lead
Now I pursue eternal Love eternally pursuing me
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Paradox of Happiness
At what point do things that make you happy cease to do so? Many times, this is over-indulgence of these items or events. As it turns out, the same things that make us happy, if overused, begin to simply ward off unhappiness. We begin to ponder and chew on the elusive thought of general happiness and self-actualization.
Many continue on the pursuit of increased stimulus—things that make...
Posterity of Virtue
Is it possible that all of your decisions of today score the course of the future? Well the glimmering answer is yes, or at least this is one way to think about such things. Is it so that each decision compromises the well-being of future family, both immediate and greatly postliminary—hundreds, thousands? May your concerns be counseled by selflessness. Partitions of your world are not...
October 2011
5 posts
Donate Kiva - powered by Center for Community...
Geraldine is 35 and a resident of Dasmarinas, Cavite, Philippines. She is married to Samuel, and is the mother of three children, one of whom is in high school while the other two are in elementary grades. At this time, she is working hard to be able to send her remaining children all the way through college — a dream for most Filipino parents like Geraldine as she herself was only a high...
Political Thoughts of a Freshman
In partical fulfillment of Dr. Simone Yehuda’s class
November 2008
Many commercial ads and other means of advertising had been whizzing past our heads before the end of the 2008 presidential election with a significant portion of them saying to get out and vote. What if some of the viewers are not meant to vote? It would be an understatement to say that many voters are not knowledgeable...
Trophy Husband
(Circa 2008)
It started with a reference, or several. Theses references turned out to be several people. These people included my mother, my friend Bryan, another friend named Lisa, and a couple ex-employees. I was at the stage in my life where I was taking on many more responsibilities at once. One of the larger, and of greater importance, was finding a source of income that did not consist of...
Home is discovered in the house of certainty
September 2011
2 posts
Vice/Virtue
As tempting as it can be, we all must withstain,
why render our love and devotion to God as secondary.
Don’t be lustful, to passions in this earthly life.
Instead have self-control and chasity.
Don’t lose sight of who I am.
When we over-indulge
We are withholding from the needy.
Don’t gluttonize and waste.
Instead have temperance.
And don’t lose sight...
Falling Stars.
We’ve been running ‘round this. Baby, I can feel us fading.
It’s not what we were meant to do. You and I were a shadow in the light. If this happened any other time, I’d still be too soon.
These falling stars, who knew they fell so hard. Don’t tell me that we’re through. And all this time, Lord knows that she’s still mine. It’ll always be us two.
...
July 2011
7 posts
Kiva (&Microfinanzas Prisma) - Microloan
Daniel is 23 years old. He lives with 18 year-old Idayza and the couple have two beautiful daughters. They live in their own home which is located in the ecological district of Sivia. Daniel is a very hard-working man. He recalls that he had to work from a very young age in order to help his parents with their household expenses as they were very humble people and what they earned...
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Things I DO Necessarily Like
Painting
Endorphins & Enkephalins
Dri-fit T-shirts
Biking
Classical music
Night classes
Driving slowly
Talking to strangers
The Lions franchise
Highlighters
Friendship bracelets
Chicago
Toed shoes
Mathematics
Old people
Riddles
Not being on fire
Salad
90 degree F-plus days
Compression shorts
MultiVitamins
Parkour
Starfruit
Green tea
My siblings
Bar soap
Smilley faces
June 2011
7 posts
May 2010
1 post
Top 5
top five things mickey qwapis should not wear
#1. a tampon as a necklace
#2. a jacket with fringe (e.g. the guy from counting crows)
#3. granny panties (at least for forty more years)
#4. paint and/or nipple tassels
#5. old man cologne
April 2010
5 posts
Don’t Confess - Tegan and Sara
Top 5
top five ways to drink milk
#1 out of a cup with a picture of a sunset on it
#2 out of an old man’s mouth
#3 from you mother’s breast (but it’s not your mother, it’s actually a slutty college student)
#4 off a vampire’s chest
#5 out of a solid gold cup and then you get to keep the cup
Top 5
top five things that a blind person needs…
#1. A walking cane
#2. Sunglasses (more of a want)
#3. A guide dog
#4. A guide dolphin (for swimming)
#5. Food
March 2010
6 posts
Snippet.
I watched from afar, in the seat of my car at someone seemingly getting her groove on.
So I blink, count to three, how amazingly free, because I know this must be her song.
And it went…
i pulled up besider her, with a quirkly lil’ smile firtst
And continued to ask her for her first name.
Her jam on repeat, and a quick look at me
She took my hand and said “Jane”
...
Let Go - Imogen Heap
Untitled. Yet.
I said baby don’t do it
You’ve already put me though this sort of thing before
I’m down on my knees and I can’t stand the bleeding of my heart anymore
We’re miles from the truth,
I grew distant from you
But the stories may hurt me the worst
When heartbeats collide, it’s a car crash inside
And the storm begins to pour on my conscience
I’d like to...
Top 5
top 5 ways to make someone to say the phrase “I don’t need a pencil”…
#1 Asking someone who already has a pencil in their hand if they need a pencil
#2 Asking someone who is swimming if they need a pencil
#3 Giving a pencil to the “I don’t need a pencil” guy from a made up sitcom that I just make up
#4 Offering a pencil to a person who is starving do...
Lil’ Wayne & Nicki Minaj
goldfishes
goldfish produce ethanol out of their gills people!
..something to do with anaerobic glycolysis and how they can swim and survive for nearly forever without inspiring oxygen.
this also explains why goldfish, along with most carp, can live in fish bowls and not have any source oxygen being pumped through the system.
now if only we could harness the power of these magical fish!..or at least teach...
February 2010
3 posts
City and Colour
The Adventures of...
a better excuse for a poem..
all in good fun, the way Shel Silverstein would have wanted it.
There once was a man named Johnny Cali Koo He did things you wouldn’t never think to do Old man john thought to buy a porcupine he said that wasn’t enough, so he bought another nine Jimmy, Billy, Sally and Moe Holly, Mike, Tommy and Bo Mr. Koo then counted Charles, and a look came upon his...
Play All Day
A two-minute poem originally created to submit to Professor Susan Woodard in partial fulfillment for an Introduction to Literature course, but I am seriously reconsidering.
“Play All Day”
By Jared Pirkle
I was told to always pull out. The following is how i feel about that. I never pull out because it makes me pout to finish inside is like a roller coaster ride I wish i could be...
January 2010
5 posts
Chronic Requiem
Look up to the heavens,
it feels like rain
and wash away this awful pain.
And now everybody walks away,
resting up for another day.
Dr. Jones, you know what I’ve been
missing. Write my wrongs…I’ll never be
forgiven. Coming back to what we’re
supposed to be. ‘Never forget what you meant
to me….again.
Oh, again.
Just come back, we’ll never fight...
Ferison
No tree is edible.Some trees are green.Some green things are not edible. friendly syllogism :]
There are a lot of thing to think about, but...
-Unknown
December 2009
9 posts
Happy Holidays!
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Christmas fallacy
Now everybody is familiar Santa’s reindeer. But there is one key point that is generally assumed true, but is utterly false. The breakdown goes as follows:
1.) Reindeer, also known as caribou, belong to the phylogenetic class of cervidae.
2.) Caribou, unlike most of the rest of its cervidae friends, have antlers on both the male and female specimen of its species.
3.) It is fair to assume...