A Little More on Affluence and Appreciation

Here's a fun little tool I found.  It's called The Global Rich List and is a little "get you thinking and doing some good" project of the London-based company POKE.  You enter your annual income and currency and the little calculator shows you where you rank among the world's wealthiest.  They also give suggestions for what you might do with just one hours worth of your salary.

As my husband sweetly says, I have a little "jobby".  I don't make a lot of money (but I do get to mother 480 children for a few hours a day without all that pesky laundry!)  Anyway, do you know what I could do with 1 hour's pay?

I could buy a treated mosquito net that would keep a family of 4 safe from Malaria, which kills a CHILD every 45 seconds.

For 2 hours of work, I could provide a family with a flock of ducks which would give them protein and income in the form of eggs, plus they could pass on income-producing ducklings to their neighbors!  (Even if you don't think you want to give livestock you should watch this video--their energy will keep you smiling all day:)

These are just 2 things I could do on less than a family trip to the yogurt shop.  I am grateful to have the opportunity to help others.  Now I'm going to box up the clothes that have been sitting in our laundry room and get them to Safeplace, our community resource for women and children leaving everything to escape domestic violence.

I know this might not seem to have anything at all to do with meditation and creating a little corner of peace, but trust me, mindfulness is more than 20 minutes a day on a cushion.  Mindfulness is steeping every thought, word and action in a spirit of acceptance and appreciation.

I'm holding you in the light