Spurs fan, it is in no way childish to promote the healthy, friendly competition. It is in fact the mature and adult thing to do instead of trying to beat the other team in order to press your believing/unbelieving ideas on someone else. THAT is childish

I’ve limited means to support (support! that’s a better word as it covers giving and lending) and am necessarily choosy about where my few dollars go. Mostly political but some worthy charities.

I know, for instance, how worthy the Red Cross is first hand so they are on my list. While I tend to lean towards political change, I also keep an ear to the ground for hands that help without the condition of lips that sermonize.

I just moved to a different suburb of my city and am happy about the move. They are surprisingly diverse and broad-minded and though the area looks quite wealthy (and mostly is, I was lucky to find an apartment within my grasp) we have not found the snobbery inherent in a lot of suburbs including the previous one we lived in that half the reason to be snobby but was.

My Town has an organization that helps seniors stay in their own home by use of volunteer companions. You have to be able to drive (so you can help with groceries, doctors, etc.) so I can’t do that and my own health is failing. Because my health is poor it makes me conscious of the need. I know I’m lucky to have my daughter. I’ll be supporting (I think I like that better) them too because not everyone is so lucky. Even if you have a loving adult child, they often have to move away for work or other reasons.

I’ll be the first to argue that it isn’t obligatory on anyone’s part to support charity by money or deeds but, hey, don’t expect support if you aren’t willing to give it and it doesn’t take much common sense to figure out you can either do your bit to make the world a better place, leave it as bad as you found it, or make it worse. Those are really the only three options we have — no matter what we believe.

There is a preference you can change in your Kiva account so that you only receive 1 email per day which shows all team posts for the previous day.

Cheers,
Pete

Well, I didn’t mean to literally suggest that someone donate one cent, but surely no charity would reject a $24 donation while hoping for a $25 one?

Once again, it is not a “charity,” and the loans are not donations, they’re loans that are paid back and can be loaned again. We’ve been rolling over a $500 account I gave my wife for her birthday for nearly two years, and I’ve actually lost count of how many loans we’ve made. I guess I can find that on our account page somewhere.

Now I gotta figure out how to cut down on the email barrage from the atheist group!