Posts Tagged ‘structures’


LWA & Haiti

by:
09
Feb
2010
LWA Haiti Relief As the tragedy in Haiti fades into the background of the news media the real rebuilding and restoration begins. Gone are the constant headlines and outpouring of kindness from around the world, replaced with the business of helping restore a country which even before the earthquake had multiple challenges facing it’s leaders and people. As casual viewers from a far, it’s easy to let apathy or even the overwhelming nature of the situation lead us to look past the needs of the Haitian people, but this we can combat that urge with small, tangible—yet life saving steps of kindness and generosity. Like we’ve said above, Love Without Agenda friends “Haiti Partners,” have ran an orphanage in Haiti and been a consistent partner in Port au Prince for over 15 years and are on the frontline of helping to rebuild and care for the people of Haiti. If you are able to, please consider supporting them on an ongoing basis financially and check out the projects they have been working on during this rebuilding process. Organizations like this are the life blood of Read more...



do we need rules?

by:
13
Apr
2008
we love the idea of spaces with no rules we love the fill those spaces with rules we want rules for others but not ourselves anarchy. communism. paganism. cults. open system. corporate system. hell. heavan. strict parenting. buddy parenting. one day one of my kids said “mom, how do we have a good family if we have no rules?” another said” yea, do you ever say no?” as you listen to these questions, your mind may jump to this picture of me and my kids laying around in a pig sty home smoking weed. please abstain. i have said no a few times. we dont have rules because we live by one simple value: mutual respect. and it works out which is nto always the case, i know i am blessed. we live well because we chose to add on top of that another value: love. its truly beautiful. in some way it could be called invisible rules rules come into play when any part of the group doesnt chose to live by respect. right? a rule is then placed into play in order to protect from damage. we dont want to go there. but we normally we have to some folks put rules Read more...