On This Mid-Week Prowl Throughout our Properties.....

Please enjoy these courtesy of the team at Global Citizen as we are grateful to the team at the Mission for having published this earlier: 

This Homeless Man Earned $400K – and He’s Giving It Away

After he gave his last $20 to buy gas for a woman in need, a viral GoFundMe raised thousands of dollars to reward him. Now, he’s using the money to help even more people.

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Why the Matt Lauer Moment Could Be a Tipping Point

After the accusations against Lauer, and his firing from “Today,” can we finally acknowledge that abuse happens everywhere – and that there's never an excuse?

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The ‘Pepsi Lobster’ Isn’t Alone

These five other animals were also seriously harmed by plastic – as an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic continues to enter our oceans every year.

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This Vending Machine Is Just for the Homeless

Rather than candy bars and potato chips, this genius vending machine gives fresh fruit, sanitary towels, toothpaste, books, socks, and more – just to people in need.

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Great News for the Great Barrier Reef

It’s being wiped out at alarming rates thanks to climate change, but Australian scientists think they’ve finally found a way to regenerate the Great Barrier Reef.

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Test Your Knowledge on Gender-Based Violence

How much do you really know about the forms of violence, discrimination, and obstacles women and girls face around the world?

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As a New Week Dawns.....

Please Enjoy these compilation of thoughts courtesy of +Jonathan Huie & his team that is a must read for Us and we are privileged to feature in all our properties:

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
- Rumi

Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want...
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me
- Psalm 23

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler


To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
Whatever the challenges that actually confront any of us on a given day,
the potential threats are always far greater.
There are always an array of catastrophes overhanging our lives -
wars, terrorists, hurricanes, earthquakes, escaped murderers,
child molesters, and maybe a runaway asteroid.
In comparison with what "could" happen, our lives are rather serene.

Rather than worrying about the continuous stream of potential threats,
let us give thanks for our blessing of living in the eye-of-the-storm -
our protected refuge from the terrors
of fearsome dangers just outside our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Too Much Caution is Not Prudent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Onward to the new week with all its' possibilities....

Notations On Our World (Special W-End Edition): How One Member of @OrdinaryFaces Strives To Make a Difference....

When we saw this courtesy of the Guardian, it blew us away......

Chronicling homelessness: the photographer living on streets all over the world

Ed Gold has had several series published by the BBC, but he can’t afford a home – so he sleeps outside as he travels the globe for his work

Ed Gold: ‘I’m giving people a voice who don’t normally have a voice, and that’s what’s the most important thing to me.’ Photograph: Courtesy Ed Gold

Alastair Gee in San Francisco

Ed Gold, a British photographer, is currently living in central Australia, in an Aboriginal community amid an expanse of heat-baked red earth and whirls of waving grass. But he is not spending much time photographing: instead he is keeping himself afloat by refueling cars and planes and working in a store. Despite having had numerous series published by the BBC on subjects ranging from the Afghan war to a day in the life of a Polish nurse, Gold, 48, is homeless and, much of the time, penniless. He has lived on the streets while working on shoots in Alaska, Vancouver and Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off British Columbia. When he’s back in the UK, he sleeps in doorways or in tents pitched behind his motorbike. The brutal economic realities of photojournalism leave him “in a situation where I’m poverty-stricken, but I’m not going to give up”, he said by phone recently.

As employers increasingly offer temporary contracts and minimal benefits instead of traditional full-time roles, the security of many occupations has been eroded. Labor experts define such jobs as “precarious employment”. Adjunct teaching positions are a prime example, as we revealed recently. Facing shrinking newsroom budgets and the devaluing of their profession, photojournalists like Gold also face difficulties. He knows he can’t go on like this forever. He has a heart murmur and says he’s almost a decade overdue for a heart valve replacement. “I’m already starting to feel the symptoms of it, which is increased tiredness” and severe double vision, he said. Sometimes mere subsistence is a struggle. “I never eat properly,” he said. Yet Gold thinks in grander terms. “How many other people are doing this?” he said. “I’m giving people a voice who don’t normally have a voice, and that’s what’s the most important thing to me.”

Notations From the Grid : As a New Month Dawns....

Please Enjoy These Compilation of Thoughts:

There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds.
How can people of God turn their back on the sick,
poor and hungry?
- James Robinson

Jesus said: "When you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.
And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you."
- Luke 14:13-14

If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping

the poor and the sick and the hungry

than he did about heaven and hell.

Shouldn't that tell us something?

- John Grisham

You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- the Buddha

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

I have never met an aggressive person
who wasn't a fearful person.
- John Bradshaw












&  this final one from Teddy Roosevelt:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. 

Onward to December with all its' possibilities....

On This Mid-Week Prowl On the Eve of the New Month....

Please Enjoy these Series of "Thoughts 4 the Week" courtesy of Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Follow Your Bliss.
- Joseph Campbell

If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Who said that life had to be serious?
Imagine, Play, Sing, Turn Cartwheels, Be Unstoppable, Dance Wildly With Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to practice whimsey,
smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
watch wondrous cloud animals parade your story,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat,
and dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What if we like our outrageous side best?
We "know" that the "right" thing to do is to suck it up,
put the costume and the happy face back in storage for another year,
re-dress in our frown and gray flannel suit,
and trudge back to job, chores, "responsibilities," and "duty."
Stop! Maybe TODAY is the day to put the frown and gray flannel
into that dusty storage locker, and start to LIVE.
Not just today, but EVERY DAY for the rest of your life!
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 

Today: Do something Outrageous - just because you want to.
Take off your shoes and dance on the beach... Play in the mud... Sing at the top of your lungs... and don't care who hears you.
Celebrate today... Celebrate ME... Celebrate Life... Celebrate Rainbows and Butterflies... Celebrate Whimsey...

Notations From the Grid (W-End Edition): Thankful 2 Gatorade w/ Sisters in Sweat ft. Serena Williams

It is the advent of a new week here in our properties as our team had a chance to reflect and earlier this week released a new Notation on Our World.   The horrific scenes out of Egypt underscores the profound challenge our World Faces today.    This uplifting clip is a message to us all to give u and think about the best in us:

Onward to the New Month Before Us as we leave you with this courtesy of the team at the Mission:

Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there’s something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can’t help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It’s an inspiring time of the year. -Marlo Thomas

On This Thanksgiving Day.......

We received this that we are proud to feature as an example of selfless acts of courage on this thanksgiving day here in Orange County: 

Rasoi Curry Point Restaurant will be providing 1,500 free meals to anyone in need on Thanksgiving Day. Date: November 23, 2017 - Thanksgiving Day Where: Rasoi Curry Point (678 El Camino Real, Tustin, CA  92780) Time: Between 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Please Enjoy This from "Hamilton"  from our archives we chose courtesy of the team at WeFunder from  Lin-Manuel Miranda from the musical Hamilton:  

“America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me. You let me make a difference. A place where even orphan immigrants can leave their fingerprints and rise up.” 

It is this spirit that sustains us as we wish all the most joyous of Thanksgivings....