February 2009
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An interesting question / Questions on Kindness.
I received an interesting question today on Twitter in regards to the Brown Bag Campaign. Here is the question:
MattieTK @withoutlove is your project connected to any religious belief, or is this just pure, uninfluenced human kindness? :D good luck regardless!
This was my response:
withoutlove @MattieTK gr8 question. Don’t consider myself religious. I am spiritual. Not just from...
January 2009
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Brownbagcampaign.withoutlove.org →
Hey everyone!
Check out all of the donations so far for the Brown Bag Campaign @ brownbagcampaign.withoutlove.org.
There is still time for you to go out and make a donation!
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
withoutlove project: Day 9.3
hearttoground:
40 Items/2 Bags
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
withoutlove project: Day 9.2
hearttoground:
45 Items/3 Bags
So I went to my local foodbank today, and had a wonderful time dropping off my 45 cans. The place was kind of unassuming so I didn’t expect the very warm crowd of volunteers/administrators that came outside to help unload my bags. I told the head of the United Way programs where I was about withoutlove’s program, and she got very...
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
withoutlove project: Day 9.1
hearttoground:
3 Boxes/48 Items
Went to the local foodlink warehouse
Donated 24 cans of vegetables and 24 boxes of mac and cheese
The 48 items on the big scale
Glad to be a part of another good cause!
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
withoutlove project: Day 8.2
hearttoground:
25 Items/1 Bag
Here’s everything I put in the bag: 25 items in total
Here’s the bag (with the worst drawn heart ever)!
This is the food bank barrel. Had to revert to cell phone cam:
And here it is inside the barrel:
Looks like some jerkstores put their garbage in there…why I outtaaaaaaaa! Hope this is enough info…and I hope there’s...
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
withoutlove project: Day 8.1
hearttoground:
These are from yesterday, which I didn’t get around to posting until today.
18 Items/1 Bag
Just got back from a successful trip to a salvation army where I dropped off my 18 items, finally! I say finally because they have a thousand signs plaguing the out said wall saying “please ring doorbell for assistance” and when you find that hidden doorbell...
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Dreams.
Be careful with your dreams… don’t let just anyone have access to them.
You may have people who love you, who care about you, who deeply believe the best about you. But know matter how much a person loves you, they may not always understand your dreams.
Don’t let someone tell you your dreams are too big for you, to impractical.
Don’t ever let someone edit down your...
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
Elizabeth emailed me these pictures of the food she dropped off to her local Crisis Center!
Thanks Elizabeth!
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Credit where Credit is due
I just wanted to take a minute and thank hearttoground for what she has already done for the Brown Bag Campaign.
She and her friends have gotten together to try and see how much of the Valentines Day 1000 they can cover.
They have already collected a lot of food, in fact, I just posted pictures of 35 bags of food that they collected already!
THANK YOU SO MUCH HEARTTOGROUND!
Why not take a...
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
withoutlove project: Day 6.5
hearttoground:
26 Items/1 Box
Here are my 26 items about to be delivered to the local Salvation Army.
Here are my items inside the drop-off location. It is also a soup kitchen, which is why you can see a kitchen behind the counter, and a guy eating in the top-leftt corner of the pic.
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
withoutlove project: Day 6.4
hearttoground:
35 Items/3 Bags Donated
Hey there! I just got back from the food drive at the Whole Foods near my dorm. It always feels great to help out and do whatever I can for those in need! Here are my 35 items (Some are hidden behind others and underneath cans, but I swear they are there!)
And lastly, here is the food drive at Whole Foods:
Thanks...
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
withoutlove project: Day 6.3
hearttoground:
3 Bags/30 Items Donated
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
withoutlove project: Day 6.2
hearttoground:
30 Bags Donated
On Martin Luther King Day (Jan 19th), a few days before the Waffles food drive started, but on Obama’s Nation Day of Service (www.usaservice.org) my wife and I planned a food drive for a local organization and a local animal rescue group to collect food and supplies for them. We placed 4 collection boxes at local businesses on...
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
withoutlove project: Day 6.1
hearttoground:
16 Items Donated.
16 items donated to the local food bank! Thanks putting this together! It is always nice to get a reminder of the importance of giving.
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A Few Thoughts on Wisdom.
Being SMART does not mean you’re WISE. We can go through life learning all sorts of facts. We can learn all sorts of lessons. We can gather all kinds of experiences. But that does not make us WISE, that just makes us SMART. WISDOM comes when we take all that knowledge that we have accumulated, all those lessons we have learned and APPLY it to our lives. Learning makes you SMART. Applying...
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
hearttoground:
25 items dropped off at the Salvation Army Social Services (Corps)
OK, I went out and bought some shit. I didn’t have anything in my cupboards. I’m a bachelor. When I’m hungry I go out and buy some food and eat it.
I keep blank CD’s and DVD’s in my cupboards.
So I went to Ralphs and got 25 items:
Here is my bag:
I brought it here: Salvation Army Social Services (Corps)...
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
hearttoground:
Nothing to talk about on Day 4, but some great stuff on Day 5!
20 various items (boxed up) and dropped off at Food Finders (http://www.food-finders.org/)
20 various canned goods donated to Food Finders Food Bank. Wal-mart didn’t have paper bags, so I used my own box. At home:
Ready to go:
Food Finders:
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“Hope. It’s what we cling to when reality leaves us nothing else.”
– @sulliethegreat via Twitter.
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A Few More Bags
More donations for the Brown Bag Campaign!
hearttoground:
Nothing to report on Day 2.
Got another donation for the withoutlove brown bag project today. Things are looking up :D (22 items; 3 bags full)
An awesome community center for the large number of underprivileged inner city youths in this area. They run programs, soup kitchens and fundraisers all the time.
Everyone was super...
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Rule #7- To Change the World
Keep your word.
Do what you say you’re going to do no matter what, even if the only person who is inconvenienced is you.
A Few New Ways to Spread the Word
I hope you aren’t getting tired of hearing about it, but the Brown Bag Campaign is really gaining some great momentum.
I just wanted to reblog this so that you would see I added Myspace to ways to spread the word.
If you’re on Myspace, then why not make Withoutlove a friend and help spread the word!
withoutlove:
In order to reach our goal of the Brown Bag Campaign :...
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Rule #6- To Change the World
Disapointments will come. People will let you down.
Endure.
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havent-got-a-prayer:
sine-qua-non:
Hallelujah -...
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“To learn you must want to be taught.”
– TLB
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Brown Bag Campaign Donations!
Hearttoground is getting their whole network involved with the Brown Bag Campaign, here is a post from their first donations!
You guys are amazing!
hearttoground:
We’re trying to help Without Love’s goal of 1000 bags of groceries donated to the hungry by Valentine’s Day. We think this is a great idea and we’re trying to get our whole website involved.
Got our first donations today already!
...
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An experiment in Social Influence
As I type this, there are 26 day’s left until Valentines Day.
26 day’s to reach our goal of 1000 pictures (bags of food) by Valentines Day.
There are 644,407 users of Tumblr right now.
We only need 1000 of us to get involved. That is less than .16% of current Tumblr users.
If everyone who follows this Tumblr, would reblog this post, and asked at least 8 of your followers to reblog...
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Rule #5- To Change the World
You cannot buy influence, but you can borrow it.
Find those people around you with more influence than you have, and take your passion to them. You might hear 100 no’s, but all you really need is one yes.
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“Wisdom is doing the right thing - not just doing things right. Wisdom creates...”
– Via @cmnworld (twitter)
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A Few New Ways to Spread the Word
In order to reach our goal of the Brown Bag Campaign : Valentines Day 1000, collecting 1000 pictures (bags of food) by Valentines day 2009, we need as many people to know about it as possible.
Here are some places you can help spread the word:
Brown Bag on Facebook
Brown Bag on Virb
Bown Bag on Twitter
Brown Bag on Myspace
More to come…
I hope you are not getting tired of...
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Brown Bag Campaign: Valentines Day 1000
The response to the “Withoutlove Brown Bag Campaign” has been amazing! We have had almost 70 reblogs already! That is HUGE!!!
Today I want to announce the Valentines Day 1000.
I have set a goal of collecting 1000 pictures (bags) by Valentines Day! (Big thanks to http://www.mansitrivedi.com for the great idea)
What do you think?
Valentines day is a day dedicated to love and passion...
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“It is a tragic, criminal thing to use love as a weapon or tool of control and...”
– (via withoutlove) Reblogging myself for a friend who needs to read this.
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Rule #4- To Change the World
Invest in people.
Find one or two people that you know could use a friend and give them your time, your love, and most importantly your sincerity.
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It's time to leave
It’s time to leave.
It’s time to shake off that old thing that has been holding on for so long that you feel as if it has become another organ in your body.
Maybe it’s a failure, or a heartbreak, or maybe it’s something you wish you had said but didn’t or never had a chance too.
Whatever it is, whatever that thing is that has anchored you to your past, leaving you...
Today.
havent-got-a-prayer:
Today, put your fears behind you. Talk to a stranger. Take a drive without knowing where it is you’re headed. Write a song for someone you love, even if it is yourself. Begin a book. Learn something new. Try something different. Surprise yourself. Paint a picture. Sit on a rooftop, without your cell phone or your computer. Speak your mind. Listen to someone. Dig...
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“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The...”
– Teddy Roosevelt
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Please Participate... Please Spread the Word......
I have said it before, I want to be more than a consuming force in this world. I have no desire to sit around typing my opinion about the world and ways we could fix it, without actually getting out from infront of my computer and taking action.
There are so many problems in this world, so much pain and heart ache. There are so many things that we could make better, by simply taking a moment to...
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“Hold on… Love is coming.
I feel like I’m all alone…...”
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Rule #3- To Change the World
If you discover a cause you’re passionate about, immediately pursue it.
“Don’t think you have to put on a fund-raising campaign before you start. You don’t need a lot of equipment. You are the equipment… Travel light.”
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“Change isn’t change until it’s change.”
– Ed Cole
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“Don’t set resolutions this year… set goals.
Then don’t focus...”