Saturday, November 1st, 2008...2:45 pm

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Can you believe it?  I’m posting on a Saturday!  Oh, and Flea? Rabbit Rabbit.

It’s officially November.  I’m sure all of us are beginning to think of a date just a smidge over 50 days from now and wondering what to buy everyone.  In addition, we realize, this month is all about tryptophan comas from gorging ourselves on that delectable bird at Thanksgiving.  This is the season of eating heavily, gaining an average of five pounds and spending money out the wazoo.  I am certainly guilty of joining in the festivities and helping to stimulate the economy - it’s the capitalist American way.

But, what about people all around us who have nothing?  The ones who would take the excess we casually throw away after dinner?  The ones who in our own country, our own hemisphere are not thinking about elections, economies, or the latest gadgetry to buy Great-Uncle Ralph for Christmas. These are the poor and hungry who do not look past their need to fill their stomachs.  As a parent, I know I would do just about anything for my child.  What if I had nothing to feed him?  Wouldn’t that make my heart break?  I know for a fact it would.

I mentioned yesterday I would donate my November ad revenue to my favorite charity: Food For the Poor.  Why do I love them?  They give where there is need.  In the US, in Haiti, anywhere.  And, while most charities give 90% of their collections to actual aid, FFP gives a staggering 96%.  They are also big into building up infrastructure.  It’s easy to give a family one meal, but how about chickens to provide a business and eggs to keep feeding.  Or a house, so the next big storm doesn’t blow away a family’s box.  Or a well, to provide safe drinking water for a whole village?  And, they teach people who have nothing skills to start businesses: sewing, fishing, farming.

Poverty does not judge based on race or ethnicity or even country.  It affects everyone, including people in our own country.  And, I distinctly remember right after Hurricane Katrina getting an email appealing for donations, because Food for the Poor would be trucking aid to New Orleans.  In Christmases past I have found that adorable pre-printed embossed card to send out to friends & family. This year, I chose instead to help out mothers in Haiti who were taught to take the bark from banana trees laying around on the ground and turn them into cards.  Instead of giving my parents something they really don’t need, I’ll donate something from the Christmas catalog in their name.

Please click through your reader.  Please share this post with others.  Take the button and put it on your sidebars.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to say we didn’t just eat a turkey this Thanksgiving, we helped a family to get a flock of them to provide continued meals?  Every click adds up.  And, my challenge to you is to make that number grow, because whatever the ads reach at the end of the month, I will personally double the amount.  I’m already up to $10, because Nap Warden made my button on condition that the money be donated, and with that $10, I can buy a fruit tree or feed a family for a month.

Please help me help others & let’s see how much we can give.  Thanks.  I love you guys.

Here is the code:

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