I hate excercise.
I've had no success with exercise until recently.
Now I have a totally new mindset. I don't actually exercise - I look for alternatives to my car. I've been taking the bus to work 2-3 days/week. I ride my bike for short trips around town.
I've started a new work schedule - 7-3:30. This should make getting to work on my bike easier. I also wear a pedometer.
I took the bus today. I was in the middle of something at work and didn't leave until 4:45. I was so tired from the weekend (Ebertfest). I wanted to go straight home, but I had to go by Strawberry Fields. It's about a 15 minute walk from work. I didn't really need anything for myself, but we're out of wet cat food. We have dry, but I didn't want the stare-down from Sweetpea. She'll sit on her table and stare at me until I get her wet food, even when she has dry food in her bowl.
And I wasn't going to take the bus home and drive back.
Thanks to Sweetpea I got my 10,000 steps today and then some!
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
"There should be no such thing as an illegal person on this planet"
The above is a quote from Raquel Rubio Goldsmith, a crusader for border reforms and more humane treatment of the undocumented.
I found the quote in the book I just finished reading today: "The Devil's Highway".
I started crying today as I finished the book. It is a heartbreaking account of 26 men and boys that tried to cross the Mexican border into the Arizona desert. Only 12 people survived the trip.
In the last several months, I've become aware of a group called Humane Borders.
"Humane Borders, motivated by faith, offers humanitarian assistance to those in need through more than 70 emergency water stations on and near the U.S.-Mexican border. " Humane Borders was mentioned several times in "The Devil's Highway". The part of the book that really got me crying is this:
"In Arizona, critics are more direct. Toxic materials appear in jugs that look like drinking water. Humane Borders water stations are vandalized, the 300 gallon tanks broken open so they run dry." What causes such hate?
Human trafficking over the border is heartbreaking and a big business. Lots of people die after paying for assistance to get over the border. These people cook to death in the desert, abandoned by the guides they paid; in trunks of cars; in backs of trucks; in train cars; and strapped to the engine blocks of cars.
We need a more humane immigration policy.
I found the quote in the book I just finished reading today: "The Devil's Highway".
I started crying today as I finished the book. It is a heartbreaking account of 26 men and boys that tried to cross the Mexican border into the Arizona desert. Only 12 people survived the trip.
In the last several months, I've become aware of a group called Humane Borders.
"Humane Borders, motivated by faith, offers humanitarian assistance to those in need through more than 70 emergency water stations on and near the U.S.-Mexican border. " Humane Borders was mentioned several times in "The Devil's Highway". The part of the book that really got me crying is this:
"In Arizona, critics are more direct. Toxic materials appear in jugs that look like drinking water. Humane Borders water stations are vandalized, the 300 gallon tanks broken open so they run dry." What causes such hate?
Human trafficking over the border is heartbreaking and a big business. Lots of people die after paying for assistance to get over the border. These people cook to death in the desert, abandoned by the guides they paid; in trunks of cars; in backs of trucks; in train cars; and strapped to the engine blocks of cars.
We need a more humane immigration policy.
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