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There is an interesting article at MSNBC on Americans salvaging food, electronics, furniture, clothes, art, etc. from dumpsters. Sorry, I just can't bring myself to do that--climbing inside of dumpsters. This is very dangerous also, as I can remember when I was a kid, two kids in the neighborhood I lived in died from being burned to death in dumpsters.

Times are not that desperate and I pray that I am never faced with this decision to make, but there is a 51 year old woman interviewed in the article named Rebecca who gets 99% of her food from the dumpster and here is how they describe her background: "owns a small duplex and has a job running an art program for a health care organization. She’s also an artist in her own right whose accomplishments include a piece that hangs in the Seattle Art Museum."

“It’s so easy to eat for free,” she says. “The only things I buy are butter and milk.”

The Yuck factor is just too high for me. I will live off of beans and rice forever, preparing it one thousand different ways, before I diversify my menu with food from the garbage. That's just me. I will bet anything ole Becky has a cat, and it gets fresh Meow Mix on the regular. No dumpster scraps for Garfield. READ MORE...

A reader sent this video link to a meaningful, thought provoking song called 'Keep Praying'. Enjoy.

"A Reflective song, utilizing modern day imagery, provoking thought to where we are and what is around the corner. This is Real life."---Lifeline Entertainment

Thanks Miriam for the suggestion! :)

This man, Nicholas White, was stuck in an elevator for 41 hours, the video is edited down to a several minutes. I was wondering how he relieved himself.

I was stuck on an elevator for about 3 minutes last year and it was somewhat frightening. Back in the late 90s I worked with a woman who was permanently disabled, because she was in an elevator that dropped, I believed at least five floors. She was mentally and physically scarred for life. She seemed to be sort of shell shocked.

The company where this took place was global corporation. She unsuccessfully sued the company. You would think it would be an open and closed case, but without sparing details, the court found the company was not at fault. WATCH TRAPPED What would you do besides pray?

This morning I was leaving out to take a drive to the park and walk around the track and hit a few tennis balls. Before I left, I grabbed two empty Sprite cans from last night and thought I put them in the recycle bin next to the dumpster. Grabbed my racket, the cans, and head for the dumpster.

There is this old Asian guy with blue surgical gloves on with items laid out, outside of the dumpster and it looked a like a garage sale. As I approach him, I thought how convenient, he had his stainless steel grocery shopping cart, and several cans and bottles sorted. So I extend out my hand to give him the two cans, his face lit up in joy, he was smiling, laughing, positive gesturing, and joyfully took the two cans. At the same time, I am thinking: I hope his hands don’t touch mine with those gloves. After all, he was digging into garbage. Sure enough, his fingertips touched my hand during the exchange. So all I could think was I have to get to my car to that hand sanitizer.

He couldn’t speak a lick of English, not enough to even say “Thank You,” but his facial expressions and body language said “Thank You” and much more. I hand off the cans and proceed to back off with a good feeling, and walking away.

I buy and like Cottonelle toilet paper and they've launched their "Be Kind to your Behind" campaign. If you look at all of their products including their flushable wipes (which I have not tried...lol), they have a cute little puppy on it. At first glance, you'd think they were trying to break into the pet industry.

The puppy stands alone on packaging for wipes and toilet tissue. Are they trying to send subliminal messages? I know there's doggy water and many other products I would not splurge on for an animal, but now dogs are on toilet tissue packaging? Flushable wipes

Don't be surprised when the next commercial says "soft and cottony for you and your pets..." guess they save money by targeting two markets in one message. Also, I am sure, it cost less to pay the doggy model/actress than a human. What's next?

I had a flashback on a roommate situation I had during my time at community college back in the late 80s. He had no life…well; his life was monitoring my life. However, I will not malign him too much. I was trying to find this list online, which a co-worker at the time gave to me.

My main problems with this roommate had to do with his sloppiness and the fact that he needed to find a life. This list was the source of a few blow-ups, because every time I would post one on the refrigerator, he would yank it down.

My gripes were he would urinate on the toilet seat, not empty the garbage, and leave dirty pots and dishes around. Frequent reminders to correct the behavior were useless. Well, that household union lasted about two months and I was outta there. We had a meeting with the landlord, and subsequently after much begging for mercy and explaining the guy's stalker-like behavior, he let me out of the lease.

I reproduced it as much as I could…here goes, and I have attached a Word document of the list if you need to use it… ;-)

How many times have you fallen and told yourself to get up and keep movin'? How many times has your child fallen, you've kissed the 'boo boo' and sent him or her on their merry way. Here is a video of a kid stumbling on a slide, and he goes back for a second time to conquer the great big slide. To you, is this cruel or funny? WATCH VIDEO

A series of videos created by a black male growing up in the U.S. about his experiences. Thank you for sending me your videos. Here is video #1 and I will show one video per week on this blog. These are really good videos on one black man's perspective. His timing was just right in making me aware of his videos, as I have been looking for some content on a black male's perspective, which does not involve crime, death, gangsta, absentee fatherhood, or male bashing. Those stories will continue to be included, but there must be balance of good with the not so good.

If anyone wants to share a positive story about a black uncle, son, friend, father, brother, grandfather, nephew, mate, spouse, please send it this way. I do have a heartwarming story I read on the net, but want to get permission first from the person before I post it. Ideally, I want to showcase a story once a week, if possible. Thanks :)
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