I predicted I would pop back into The Big Word Project when I was bored. (I’m not really bored, I just had a couple of minutes to kill till lunch was ready.)
I clicked on a couple of words and the results weren’t too inspiring. Then I clicked on philanthropy and found another great micro-financing site called BringLight. This site seems to allow a wider variety of projects to seek funding than Kiva, which focuses more on developing countries or poverty-stricken populations. For example, on BringLight, you can donate to Project Treat, which supplies treats for shelter dogs that are getting obedience training at the Silicon Valley Humane Society. You can also donate to human rights and environmental projects, though.
Clicked around a bit more and got a hippie weaver at loom. Clicked hula and got to a retail site selling kitschy Hawaiiana. I love that stuff. Lived there as a teenager. Some loser assigned Barack Obama’s site to charlatan.
That’s the problem with these mass Internet projects. And the world. You can’t filter out the ugliness. But knowing there are people who spend their energy creating sites like BringLight and Kiva helps keep it at bay, at least.
Do you get the magazine Body & Soul? If not, do. I think you would heart it just as much as I do. :) I hope we get to meet in person some day. You’re like the tougher version of me. ;)
Hi Claudia. I hope we get to meet IRL too! I’ll let you know if I’m ever in your neck of the woods if you’ll do the same.
I never heard of B&S. Is it this Martha Stewart mag? http://www.marthastewart.com/body-and-soul
I used to get Living. Back when I was pretending to be a housewife for a couple of years. Great recipes and I loved the decorating spreads. I still have some of those articles. I remember one about using vintage silver trays/platters under houseplants. Fun stuff and great unexpected ways to repurpose and revitalize things you got from grandma that are no longer “stylish” or things you find at thrift stores. There was a cool funky deco suggestion for displaying kitschy vintage coasters on a wall. Loved that mag.
Subscribing to US magazines from over her is $$$! I get most of my stuff online anyway. Greener and free! I fret about the trees, you know. Plus, I get on kicks; learn about Buddhism, learn about anemia, learn about the French Resistance… And with the Web I can just kind of explore whatever I’m hungry for at a given time. I’ve kind of gotten to the point where I prefer that. But thanks for the recommendation. If you see an article you want to recommend, tell me and I’ll read the online version.
I’m not a tougher version, just an older one. Just wait. ;-)
* tries not to vomit all over your blog * OK, sorry, I have this blech’ness for Martha Stewart, while I give the woman credit for her craftiness, I can’t…stand…the…bitch.
Anyhoo, I digress….
But yes, the Body and Soul mag (bodyandsoulmag.com) is indeed another part of her little corp., but not like her at all. It’s green. ALL about GREEN! :)
I have some back issues, if you want, I can send them to you??
(( hugs ))
Yeah, there is a certain creep factor when it comes to The Martha. On the other hand, I like women with brains and balls. The mag was a good diversion for a (going) mad housewife. The recipes were beyond killer, and cooking was one of my strategies for staving off the insanity. I think you understand how that works!
Please don’t send me magazines! It is outrageously expensive and I feel guilty any time I send or receive anything because I worry about the carbon emissions! I’m a little OCD about that I think. But thanks for the offer! Too bad the magazine doesn’t have an RSS feed.
I am sorry to hear people are bringing there ugliness to the Word Project–but as you say “you can’t filter out the ugliness.” I love to see which words link to what–for good or for bad.
Thanks to you I am the proud owner of chic and weasel and I can’t seem to shut up about it. I am telling everyone I know whether they seem interested or not.
p.s. Did I make it up or did you recommend a vintage store in Austin. I am going to search emails to see if I can find that. If you didn’t, please ignore my mild dementia.
Hi chic weasel. You didn’t make it up, it was Electric LadyLand and I have no idea where this just came from but I seem to remember it was on South Congress…
I just googled it and I’m right! And I left there in 1991! I’m not senile after all!
One of the best vintage shops I’ve EVER been to: http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-2741830-electric_ladyland_lucy_in_disguise_with_diamonds_austin-i
I’ll e-mail this too, but thought I’d share it with the world (or at least the 5 people who read this blog).