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Five Ways to Go Green on St. Patrick's Day for the Animals and the Environment

What better day to go green than on St. Patrick's Day? We have come up with the following five simple ways that you can make this St. Patrick's Day one for the animals and the environment:

1. One of the leading causes of climate change is meat production. Inform yourself and everyone you know that "meat's not green"!

2. The best thing that you can do to help the environment is to go vegan. Go green (and help animals!) by pledging to go vegan today.

3. Share the "Meat's Not Green" video on Facebook and expose the truth behind factory farms.

4. Take it to the streets—pass out "Meat's Not Green" leaflets and encourage others to go green too!

5. Showcase your cooking talents to your friends and family with a delicious St. Patty's Day treat. We suggest vegan Irish whiskey cake.

Don't forget to wear green too—you don't want to get pinched!

With thanks from the source: http://www.peta.org/action/st-patricks-day.aspx as they also sent the following message:

Monday is usually the work day we dread the most, right? Well, not anymore! You can start to enjoy your Mondays by implementing Meatless Monday at your workplace. Not only will you have something to look forward to on Monday, you will also be making a difference in the lives of your coworkers and in the lives of animals.

As you may know, going vegan saves more than 100 animals a year and helps reduce climate change and world hunger, all the while improving your health. It's the single most effective way to help animals, and we've made it easier than ever to start this program, with Meatless Monday resources.

PETA has created a Meatless Monday pack that will help you successfully lead your company to join the Meatless Monday movement. Give it a shot—it's easy and fun, and you'll make a difference!

Sincerely,

PETA

Happy by Bob Perks

Hello, my friend!

Well, here we go again.

Another New year.

If you notice when we celebrate anything we use words like
Merry and Happy.

Merry Christmas

Happy New Year.

Happy Birthday.

Happy Anniversary.

It really is such a simple thing, such a basic wish...to be happy.

Is "happy" a thing? Can you give it to someone?

Happy is a state of mind.

So, what we are really saying is I wish for you to be happy.

So, happy is a choice, no matter what the situation is in your life
you may be happy 24 hrs a day or find little happy moments.

I guess what I am saying is I wish for you to be happy in 2011.

Now the rest is up to you.

As Barry Manilow sings,

"It's just another New Year's Eve,

Another night like all the rest.

It's just another New Year's Eve,

Let's make it the best.

It's just another New Year's Eve,

It's just another Auld Lang Syne,

But when we're through this New Year

You'll see, will be

Just fine. " (c) Manilow


So, I wish you "Happy!"
J
Bob Perks


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"I Wish You enough!"
© 2001 Bob Perks
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear
much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Goodbye."

I'm on a break at work Christmas Eve and I see a book called "Eat, Pray, Love." Now while I've seen this book many times before, this time something told me to pick it up. I open to a random page. Here's what I read:

"Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that's not fair to say. To have issues with boundaries, one must HAVE boundaries in the first place, right? But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time - EVERYTHING."

LOL Smile

"If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else."

Hmmmmmmm.......Remind you of someone? Anyone at all????
READ THE BOOK MICHELLE!!!! Smile

I take the book home. It's about a woman named Liz who leaves the traditional perfect marriage and goes off to live in Italy, India, and Indonesia for a year to find herself. And while she does want to be spiritual, she mentions she also doesn't want to be a monk and still wants the worldly pleasure of this world. (yeah, I get her!!!)

Now while I still want what I want, my eyes are opening to new possibilities. Maybe I don't want to get married? Maybe marriage isn't for everybody? Or maybe I'm just going backwards? Travelled, messed up first, then will get married? OR maybe, just maybe, in order to find what/who I really want....I have to find myself first (imagine that). Yes, I see. This......Elizabeth Gilbert, has something to teach me. I KNOW IT.


Now while I can't quite go to Italy, India and Indonesia at the moment to find myself ..I do choose to spend this lovely Christmas evening by MYSELF. Did I mention how beautiful I feel inside? YES, I am single. YES, I don't know what the future holds. BUT I am happy NOW. I am at peace NOW.

And does anything else matter?

Didn't think so.

Merry Christmas!!!!

Love,
Michelle

With thanks from the source: http://spiritualnetworks.com/pokergirl/blog/eat-pr...

After about 34-35 years, I went to my grandparent's village and spent about a month over there. It was such a wonderful and blissful that I have no words. God seem to live in the villages and thus in the rural as the people there are closer to nature and the natural world.

Right from my childhood, I have never been away from my home at Patiala. The only time when I went away was to study in Australia during 1989 - 1991. Then after coming back from there (Australia), I started to visit my relatives at about the age of 23-24 years. However, I had never visited my granny's land that belong to my mother and father's parents. The only time I visited was when I about 6-7 years of age.

It was amazing to realize that I was never been able to visit as we have had buffaloes and cows at home that always kept our family so busy and engaged in work and studies leaving no time to leave even for single night. If my mom ever visited it was just for from morning to evening for her entire life during 1970's to around 2005.

From 1975-76 to 1995-1996, my study load has always been at least 24 points and work 50 hours per week, while working in the home based dairy form with cows and buffaloes!

I feel I am no longer a work alcoholic for online works as I decided that I would finish all of my works either by end of 2009 or at most 2010.

Now, I feel lot better and relaxed.

Thanks and I feel closer to nature and my friends both online and offline.

I wish all a wonderful ending of this wonderful year 2010 that is just going to shake hands with next year 2011. Yes, indeed we all are proud to share Happy Christmas. May it has ever ending for all of us of what begins with tears of humanly pain and ends in tears of joy as if a prayer that brings tears as if always heard, and it is so. Amen!

Thanks for your time reading it and good wishes, blessings and prayers.