This is a leap year. We gain an extra day on February 29, 2012.
Hope International released this video suggesting the idea that we all take the money we make on that one day, and re-invest it in a way that could multiply good for many people for many years to come, through micro-enterprise loans.
I’m doing it. Join me.
I just posted a 2011 overview update about the Headstand Media Bank of Hope on the Headstand Media website today: Headstand Media Bank of Hope Update. It provides an overview of what our investment in the Dominican Republic through Hope International and their local partner Esperanza, has accomplished in the first year of the Bank’s existence.
For more context, history and background on this topic, the first post is found at: Headstand Media Bank of Hope
An earlier update is found at: Headstand Media Bank of Hope Update
This post is for Marshall and Anne Marie.
Today I went to the 30th floor cafeteria of my office building to get some lunch. They had a station there featuring DR food!
So, I helped myself to:
My "DR Lunch"
I wanted to let you know that there is a great condo to rent in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, if you ever want to getaway for some winter skiing, or summer hiking, or just good old vacationing anytime of year. It’s located in a beautiful area in the mountains of northern Colorado.
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
You can find out more details about the condo, town and resort area at the Steamboat Springs Condo Rental, Colorado website.
Our family vacationed there in August of 2007 for a week and had a blast. There is a pool,
Pool at Steamboat Springs Colorado Condo
tennis courts,
Steamboat Springs Colorado Rental Condo - Tennis Courts
exercise room, and plenty of room in the condo for all 7 of us. We used the kitchen and dining area every day to cook and make our own meals with food we bought at local grocery stores.
We hiked up the mountain,
Hiking up the mountain, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
came down on the gondolas, shopped, played miniature golf, ate at great restaurants, went to a rodeo,
Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Rodeo
went trap shooting,
Trap Shooting on a ranch near Steamboat Springs Rental Condo, Colorado
and much more.
View of Condos in Steamboat Springs, Colorado
It’s a beautifal area in many ways!
Wildflowers near Steamboat Springs Colorado Condo Rental
We highly recommend it!
Our family vacationing in Steamboat Springs, Colorado
“I am afraid that even if you can entertain the notion of a positive power for evil working through human agency, you may still have a very inaccurate notion of what Evil is, and may find it difficult to believe that it may operate through men of genius and excellent character.”
– T.S. Eliot
One of my riding buddies shared this movie of a motorcycle ride on Chief Joseph Highway in Cody, WY… incredible!
In case you were wondering…
Charlie John or Kellen Brown?
“When government spends on the scale Washington’s got used to, that’s not a spending crisis, it’s a moral one. . . It’s not just about balancing the books, but about balancing the most basic impulses of society. These are structural, and ultimately, moral questions. Credit depends on trust, and trust pre-supposes responsibility. So, if you have a credit boom in an age that has all but abolished personal responsibility, it’s not hard to figure how it’s going to end.”
– Mark Steyn
Kellen’s first steps at 9 months!
My kids generation isn’t really going to know much about this man, but when I was their age, he was an important figure in our political system, in the evangelical Christian movement in the US, and in my life as a young man struggling with my position on war (Viet Nam).
A former senator and governor (Oregon), and Navy officer, Mark was among the first Americans to view the destruction at Hiroshima at the end of WW2. This experience shaped much of his later critical positions on the Viet Nam and Iraq wars and his leanings toward pacifism, while maintaining a conservative Republican Party political leadership position.
Mark was also a devout and outspoken evangelical Christian who defied many of the popular perceptions and categories associated with this conservative religious worldview.
I did not and still do not agree with him on many of his positions, but I do admire that he was a man of his convictions, who did not waiver from them because of changes in culture and politics or political pressure. We need more leaders like him.