Vulnerable Children Society - FAYA Orphanage Support

Here I would like to introduce you the new FAYA Orphanage website and supporter: Vulnerable Children Society. Vulnerable Children Society is a non-profit organization created by a committed team of Canadians volunteers and long-time Faya Orphanage supporters.

Their partner organization in Ethiopia manages an orphanage for HIV children. They are also helping to expand a community program which provides care to children and families affected by AIDS/HIV in Ethiopia. Our family are life-time sponsors and we would like to spread the word to our family/friends and blog friends out there!

It takes so little from us to make a child happy... There are many ways you can help. Money is the easy way to help because it can go directly to Ethiopia. When shopping locally you can indirectly help the country and small family business, so it is also good for their economy. But there are other ways you can help. If you can donate items (see the website for the most update list of items in need), there are people going to Ethiopia every year, and they can deliver these items as well.

This organization is not religion affiliated. Hope you can give these people a hand and your heart.

Casamento e os anos...

No dia 4 de setembro nós fomos a um casamento de uma amiga querida. Parabéns L & C! Estava tudo maravilhoso! Aos recém casados desejamos toda a felicidade do mundo! Mas já fazia anos que nós não íamos a um casamento... Pois maioria de nossos amigos já estão casados há muitos anos, alguns com crianças pequenas outros já grandes, alguns divorciados, e os que são solteiros acho que estão por escolha. Assim que foi tudo um evento emocionante, e aqui gostaria de compartilhar meus pensamentos... Acho que é natural que durante um casamento acabe-se pensando no própio casamento, na cerimônia, com todas as emoções durante aquele momento acho que a comparação é mesmo inevitável. Não digo comparação material, como a escolha do vestido, do terno, das flores ou da decoração. A comparação que eu digo é sentimental, de todas as emoções envolvidas naquela hora única e tão especial. Os votos dados, os sorrisos, a alegria estampada, o nervosismo não só dos noivos mas de toda a família envolvida. Foi uma doçura ver a alegria singela, toda aquela expectativa e o nervosismo estampado no rosto dos noivos. Também a perspectiva, o desejo e a esperança nova, pura e pronta para ser explorada. A gente acaba revivendo cada segundo do própio casamento, cada instante vivido que parece estar no passado, empoeirado na memória e um pouco esquecido pelo constante agito do dia-a-dia. Durante a cerimônia religiosa foi inevitável a troca de olhares entre eu e o meu marido, e um sorriso maroto trocado junto com um firme aperto nas mãos com os dedos já entrelaçados. O segredo no fundo, é sempre renovar o casamento. Isso exige alguns cuidados e preocupações que são esquecidos no dia-a-dia do casal. De tempos em tempos, é preciso renovar a relação. De tempos em tempos, é preciso voltar a namorar, voltar a cortejar, seduzir e ser seduzido. Aqui gostaria de dedicar esta mensagme ao casamento. Mesmo que ás vezes com brigas e arranca-rabos , de vez em quando é necessário casar-se de novo...

Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen!

Just love this video!



Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen!
By Mary Schmich (Chicago Tribune) - Baz Luhrmann

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97 Wear Sunscreen!

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, "sunscreen" would be it.
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice NOW!
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind.
You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded.
But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future.
Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind,
The kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts.
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss
Don't waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults.
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives.
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll divorce at 40.
Maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can.
Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance
Even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings.
They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in "New York City" once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in "Northern California" once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old.
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund.
Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse.
But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.