We’re a rag-tag group of people vigilantly pursuing self-sustaining educational & employment opportunities with and for students and their families living in rural communities in developing countries. We believe in asking hard questions like, “What do you need and how can we help?” We believe that communities know their needs better than we do and that it’s our job to listen. We’re big on being kind for the sake of kindness and we believe that even the smallest acts of kindness can make a big difference. We believe in keeping vigil over one another and watching for opportunities to help, no matter how far off the beaten path those opportunities take us. We’re vigilant in our belief that God has given each person unique gifts and that one of the highest forms of worship is using those gifts to serve others. We believe God has a purpose for each life and Vigilante Kindness is our purpose. Join us as we live out wild adventures in service of God and others. Join us in committing acts of Vigilante Kindness.
Tagalongs, the most delicious Girl Scout cookie ever. Your argument is invalid.
Andrew Solomon’s hopeful, yet realistic, TED talk about living with depression. It’s worth so much more than the half hour it takes to watch it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL_LQbrcVQM
wearing my One Fish, Two Fish pajamas to school on Dr. Seuss Day. Yes, I did ride my bike to school in my pajamas.
riding my bike home under a double rainbow backed by gunmetal clouds
arriving home on my bike just as it started to rain
this present I received from a little one at my school:
How adorable is this bike basket/bag? It gets even better…TAGALONGS!!! There were Tagalongs inside!!! Surely I died and went to Heaven.And look how my Sharpies look like a bright bouquet of happiness. Sigh. Perfection.
Dear Girl Scouts of America,
Let me begin by saying I’m a big, BIG fan. I love your uniforms and your sashes covered in bright patches for doing things that make our world a better place. And I’m not at all jealous of those patches, which make the nine patches I earned as a wee Brownie look unimpressive. Nope, not at all jealous. Or bitter.
In fact I have fond memories of dressing up in my Brownie regalia and singing about gold and silver friends. Although to tell you the truth, my friends don’t actually like it when I point out that they’re only a silver friend. That would have been a helpful verse.
Make new friends,
but keep the old.
Be sure not to tell the silvers
they’re not gold.
Speaking of brownies, I love any organization that lets you start out being called a sweet treat. In fact it’s a trend I think you should continue up the ranks. First you’re a Brownie, then a Samoa, then a Thin Mint, etc., until you reach the pinnacle of your Girl Scoutness and become at long last a hallowed Tagalong, by far the most superior of all your cookies.
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It’s your cookies that have prompted me to write this letter. I love the cookies. I ate some for breakfast this morning after a well-balanced dinner, of course. I have just one teensy, tiny problem with the cookies: the serving sizes on the boxes are wrong. I’m not sure who’s in charge of the packaging, but they need to spend some time crunching numbers and crunching some cookies. It is a well-known fact that a serving size of Thin Mints is one sleeve. Equally well-known is the fact that a box of Tagalongs is a single serving in itself. Please, darling Girl Scouts, speak to the powers that be and remedy this misinformation quickly. I’m sure this extremely important act of public service will earn you a shiny new patch for your sash.
Vigilante Kindness 