Saving The World One Garage Sale At A Time

Written by TJ Smith


There is a new grass roots movement taking off acrossrepparttar country, to raise funds for charity. It is called Garage Sales for Charity.org. A very simple effortless way for millions of individuals who have a garage sale to raise funds for their favorite charity. If you plan on having a garage sale you don’t need to do anything special or different, all you need to do is commit to donating a minimum of $50 or 10% or your sales to your favorite charity. Any charity--your local food shelf, church program, local shelter, national charity, where ever you feel it will dorepparttar 137717 most good. Garage Sales for Charity does not handle any ofrepparttar 137718 funds donated. They simply act as a central resource for ideas and promotion. The simplicity of this plan is what makes it so appealing. Effortless fund raising for charities duringrepparttar 137719 slow summer months when donations are down. There are no ulterior motives or agendas to promote. There are no million dollar budgets behind this, no expensive tv commercials,

Traditional Sadness

Written by A.Z. Alfred


Can any good thing come out of Galilee? That wasrepparttar thinking ofrepparttar 137636 Pharisees. Butrepparttar 137637 greatest miracle worker and preacher came from there. Don’t you know him? If you don’t, you are just like most Jews who still awaitrepparttar 137638 coming ofrepparttar 137639 messiah. Of course he will come like a thief inrepparttar 137640 night, but that would be his second coming. Hope you are not surprised?

Likerepparttar 137641 core Jews, don’t be surprised that Jesus will continue to spring forth from this present Galilee-Nigeria. Don’t be surprised that one ofrepparttar 137642 best selling authors whose books have a place in your eight feet library is a Nigerian. I won’t mention her name, rather his name. At least you are familiar with some of them who have laid downrepparttar 137643 traditions for others to follow. If you are not, then let’s walk down memory lane.

Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian, wonrepparttar 137644 Nobel Prizes years back. Nineteen years ago to be precise. Dele Olojede, a former foreign editor of Newsday Newspaper in New York, wonrepparttar 137645 Pulitzer Prize this year for his story titled “ Genocide’s Child,” a series that looked back atrepparttar 137646 civil war in Rwanda.

I was onrepparttar 137647 Internetrepparttar 137648 other day when I came across Fatima Musa. Her name sounds Nigerian though I’m not really sure if she is. But fromrepparttar 137649 story of her life, she is everything related to Nigeria. Peradventure she is not, then her past generation must have been “stolen from Africa” like Bob Marley sang.

Another border I will not fail to cross isrepparttar 137650 Booker Prize. Ben Okri, who wroterepparttar 137651 Famished Road, wonrepparttar 137652 Booker some years ago. Still onrepparttar 137653 border ofrepparttar 137654 English, Helen Oyeyemi (a teen, I would call her) is also creeping out from London ontorepparttar 137655 literary center stage withrepparttar 137656 publication of her first book,repparttar 137657 Icarus Girl.

And from his homeland, a controversial writer, Arthur Zulu, is riding higher inrepparttar 137658 writers’ world with his books How To Write a Best Seller and Chasing Shadow! A Dream. Or, you don’t know him? If you don’t, go to a search engine, type his name and you would be surprised at what you will see. I want to be believe, he is laying a tradition, very different from others, for generations coming after him.

Apart from these great names I have mentioned, there are others lost inrepparttar 137659 crowd. Those who think nine syllables names won’t sell a book. So, like George Orwell whose original name is Eric Blair. Like Mark Twain, (originally, Samuel Langhorne Clemens) they have invented themselves names, memorable names that will stick to their readers. They (lost inrepparttar 137660 crowd Nigerians) are either moving withrepparttar 137661 tradition or breaking it.

Say in Oxford University,repparttar 137662 tradition ofrepparttar 137663 school is believed to add great importance torepparttar 137664 beauty ofrepparttar 137665 school. If a student knowingly or unknowingly trampled one ofrepparttar 137666 rules, which makesrepparttar 137667 tradition, there is always a consequence.

I remember in high school, some boys and I broke a rule and we servedrepparttar 137668 consequence. We had to mowrepparttar 137669 lawn for a week. That wasrepparttar 137670 school tradition. But in Nigeria, (every tribe has its traditions and customs)repparttar 137671 consequences for breakingrepparttar 137672 tradition of a tribe could be as far reaching as excommunication or even death.

In Nigeria, when a child is born, he or she has to wait for eight days to get a name. Yes, eight days and onrepparttar 137673 eighth day, some rituals need to be performed. (I call it ritual because I see it like one) A ceremony is held, welcoming all extended family, including those toothless old men and women leaning on cane carved from ancient trees. Forrepparttar 137674 ceremony, salt, sugar, sugarcane, honey, alligator pepper, kolanut are bought forth andrepparttar 137675 child would have a taste of these items as some prayers are said representing those items.

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