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Abbie

Save a Life, Give Blood!

About Me

I heard a story once as a child of a man who wanted to change the world. As his life passed along he realized he was uncapable of changing the world until he first changed his country. He later learned he was uncapable of changing his country until he first changed his own community, and yet later he learned there would be no change in his community until there was first change in his family. To his great saddness at the end of his life he realized he could not change his family until he first changed himself. If he had only realized earlier in life the importance of knowing and changing himself, he may have been capable of changing the world. I too, like the man, desire to see the world change, but know it takes one step, one day, one person at a time. Today i am hoping to raise enough money for 2 students living in rural Guatemala to recive higher education for 1 year. The total for this is just under $1800, and you can help make that happen.

My Interests

People, Cultures, Languages, Philosophy, Campfires, Dancing in the kitchen

I'd like to meet:

anyone who can make me laugh

Music:

The Parachutes, Pink Martini, Coldplay, Imogen Heap, Dear Future, Regina Spektor

Movies:

Love Actually

Television:

Arrested Development, The Office- so funny! Lost.

Books:

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah; Soul Cravings, by Erwin McManus; "Reaching Out: The Three Movements of a Spiritual Life" by Henri JM Nouwen, "Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger" by Ron Sider,

Heroes:

Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr.