Watch this video and your life will be changed.
I kid you not, it is the simple most powerful video you will ever see.
http://www.kony2012.com/
6.3.12
KONY 2012
Stop Joseph Kony!
Watch this video and your life will be changed.
I kid you not, it is the simple most powerful video you will ever see.
http://www.kony2012.com/
Watch this video and your life will be changed.
I kid you not, it is the simple most powerful video you will ever see.
http://www.kony2012.com/
19.12.11
America the ignorant
Go to google.
Search "Operation Northwoods".
Click the Wikipedia page.
Read & Be astonished.
You're welcome.
I hope this is as disturbing to all of you as it was to me. This stuff is still happening.
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
Search "Operation Northwoods".
Click the Wikipedia page.
Read & Be astonished.
You're welcome.
I hope this is as disturbing to all of you as it was to me. This stuff is still happening.
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
15.12.11
Hello people I most likely don't know! & Welcome to my blog of randomness.
I have a little favor to ask.
It's Only $10 and about 5 minutes.
"Caroline, (Insert Holiday Here) is coming up so I can eat sandwiches all winter long and still not afford 10 measly little dollars." Wow, are you really that poor? Well, I bet the present you are about to spend 2 hours finding will cost more than $10. So instead of buying for the co-worker you barely know, give to something you can know a lot about!
"Caroline, I wasn't buying for a co-worker, it was for my best friend." Even better! You tell you BFF that you don't want just another knick knack that will collect dust. You want to help prevent their mother or baby or significant other, from getting cancer. Tell them that you would rather you the money you were going to get a card with, on charity and you would like them to do the same with the money they were going to spend on you. BAM, you just donated $20.
"Caroline, I don't feel like it right now." Seriously? The faster you do this, the faster we can help people. You want to slow down that process? Really?
I have a little favor to ask.
It's Only $10 and about 5 minutes.
What: I am raising money for an organization to help fight cancer. This charity, F*ck Cancer, is in a contest, Mozilla Firefox Challenge, with a bunch of others and if we raise the most money by Jan.11th we will win an additional $25k. This is so important to me and I'd really appreciate it! It's really easy& would mean the world to not only me, but everyone at F Cancer, everyone on the fundraising team, and everyone this charity will help.
OR if you can't donate, that's okay! Maybe you can get someone else to?
My personal goal is $2500. I'd love your help!
Why: Are you saying you LIKE cancer?!? Well, weirdo, if that's the case and you need a reason other than preventing this disease there are some PRIZES involved.
#1 When donating you will get- drumroll please: Good Karma. Let's face the fact, we all need that one.
#2 If you donate, people will like you. Simple as that.
#3 Donate $29 and you will be entered to win a signed Let's F Cancer T-shirt from Actress/Philanthropist extraordinare, Sophia Bush.
#4 Donate or Raise $2500 and you win a phone call from the same, wonderful lady.
** If you don't know who Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill, John Tucker Must Die, The Hitcher) She's pretty much my favorite person ever, an incredible actress, a great well-rounded person, philanthropist, USC grad, & most of all MY HERO.
& you should know her.
Where: This is all taking place through a website called Crowdrise. You Do Not have to be a Crowdrise member to donate. Click the big green link above to get there.
You can also donate offline and send me money, but I'm trying to help you out cause this really takes about 5 minutes to do online.
** No, Crowdrise will not send you emails, or ever sell your information, or use your credit card number, so stop making excuses and do it already.
When: The Mozilla Firefox Challenge is taking place from now until Jan. 11. However, I would like to remind you that just because the contest ends, doesn't mean the charity will stop needing money. You can always donate money. Go to www.LetsFCancer.com
How: How do I plan on pulling this off? Good question. I plan on drilling everyone I know for even the smallest donations. I plan on campaigning 24/7 for the next month. I plan on posting this to every social media website I can think of and getting every one of my friends to do the same. It's worth it, guys. Honestly it is.
Stop talking yourself out of it right now!
"Caroline, I can't afford that!" It's $10! Eat a sandwich, instead of going out for dinner and you're covered."Caroline, (Insert Holiday Here) is coming up so I can eat sandwiches all winter long and still not afford 10 measly little dollars." Wow, are you really that poor? Well, I bet the present you are about to spend 2 hours finding will cost more than $10. So instead of buying for the co-worker you barely know, give to something you can know a lot about!
"Caroline, I wasn't buying for a co-worker, it was for my best friend." Even better! You tell you BFF that you don't want just another knick knack that will collect dust. You want to help prevent their mother or baby or significant other, from getting cancer. Tell them that you would rather you the money you were going to get a card with, on charity and you would like them to do the same with the money they were going to spend on you. BAM, you just donated $20.
"Caroline, I don't feel like it right now." Seriously? The faster you do this, the faster we can help people. You want to slow down that process? Really?
More About Let's F Cancer
What is F Cancer you may ask? Why am I swearing? Well...for good reason.
With the exponential growth in technology and education, F Cancer has set out to educate everyone to recognize crucial early warning signs of cancer and inspire them turn around and spread the word to loved ones who may be at risk.
So many important charities are focused on finding a cure, when over 90% of all cancers are curable if detected in stage one - Crazy right? If it was any other disease, we'd say that a cure has been found. It's definitely important that we continue research, but right now, early detection is the best cure we have for cancer. And yet, not everyone knows that.
We can save lives just by showing people how to detect early signs of cancer.
Let's put an end to late stage cancer diagnosis. Here's how you can help...
- Educate yourself here.
- Donate, Join my team, and help me raise money and win $25k for this important cause.
- Get the word out about early detection. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell anyone that's willing to listen.
Early detection is key and the only cure that we have. Join my team and help win $25,000 for F Cancer this holiday season.
12.12.11
The Director of 'The Notebook'
"I believe in love. I believe in the biggest kind of love. And I believe that it can all work out. Even though it hasn't happened to me like that in my life, I still believe in it. And I think that's just part of being a story teller." -Nick Cassavetes
8.12.11
Sappy 'Emo' Posts
Okay, you caught me! I'm one of those girls that will spend hours searching through quotes and songs lyrics to find just the right words that I then use in my twitter updates.
I actually find it relaxing and satisfying. It's like the modern journaling. I thought I'd post some of my favorites here because... Well lets face it, because I can!
"If you don't thank God after every smile why do you blame him after every tear?"
I recently saw this quote on a painting I found on Etsy (Which, If you don't know, and you should, is a website sort of like Ebay where people sell their own creations.) I couldn't agree more with this. Humans tend to be very hypocritical people. I know personally I will find myself blaming God for some things, but forget to thank Him for the good. Other people I know don't 'believe' in God ... until something tragic happens, and then He is at fault. This is a reminder to me that he is at fault for the good in life too.
"That's the thing about feeling deeply: colours are mad vibrant, light's burningly bright, beauty stuns and the shadows are black holes."I don't know where I found this, but I am a very passionate person. I'm an artist and I always feel everything so deeply. It's sometimes amazing but like the quote says, the colors are brighter, but the blacks are darker.
Another account I follow on twitter is @ToTheKidsWho, which tweets everything starting with, "Here's to the kids who...". I love it and feel like it celebrates individuality so well. This specific quote resonated with me as I know it does with many. Many time people feel like the second choice, and just need to look around because there is someone who wants to give you that attention and make you feel loved.
I actually find it relaxing and satisfying. It's like the modern journaling. I thought I'd post some of my favorites here because... Well lets face it, because I can!
"If you don't thank God after every smile why do you blame him after every tear?"
I recently saw this quote on a painting I found on Etsy (Which, If you don't know, and you should, is a website sort of like Ebay where people sell their own creations.) I couldn't agree more with this. Humans tend to be very hypocritical people. I know personally I will find myself blaming God for some things, but forget to thank Him for the good. Other people I know don't 'believe' in God ... until something tragic happens, and then He is at fault. This is a reminder to me that he is at fault for the good in life too.
"We are only boys. How can we be enemies?"
This is truly incredible. It came from a story a man had written about his time in the Congo and 5 young boys he had met. Two of the boys were sure that they had been forced to fight each other, as there is an ongoing war there and these boys had become child soldiers. The man asked the boys if that because they fought on different sides, did that make them enemies? The boy kissed the other and said the above quote. It is so powerful. This trip resulted in the creation of an organization called Falling Whistles which you all need to look up now because it is too wonderful to put in my own words.
"Suddenly, all wars stopped. Bullets turned to film, And the people were recorded rather than ruined."
This is another quote off of something i saw on Etsy. I am a film junkie. I love it! Digital things have significantly less resonance and importance to me compared to things captured on film. It's a hard quote to explain I suppose, but to me it means that maybe if we focused a little more on art and love, violence would decrease.
"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." - Willie Nelson
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." - Harriet Braiker
There are a few Twitter accounts I follow just because they provide great quotes. These two are from them and what I would say for both of them is :"That is SO true. Sometimes we forget what is important in life."
"The problem with our world is that there are too many nice girls and not enough nice guys for them."
I didn't expect it, but this was actually tweeted by a friend of mine. I don't know if he got it from a different source or cam up with it himself. For a lot of girls I think it can feel like this. I hope it's not true though because I was never too good at musical chairs, if you know what I mean.
"Here's to the kids who are always second choice."
Twitter might not be so bad after all...
7.12.11
It's Alive!
Yep, it's me. I know I've been away from the blog for what seems like forever and no, I don't have a good excuse.
To complete this rave here is a recent post of Joy's in which my comment was:
I completely agree! Sometimes I feel like I should've been born before technology took over our lives, or was even intended for that matter. (Then I remember how much I love air conditioning and being treated with respect as a women and I snap out of it.. but that is not the point!)
I too adore writing and the older I get the more I wish people still wrote letters and took time to put thoughts on paper. I may only be 16, but I have that "Damn kids these days!" attitude most days. I can't stand reading on kindles and it breaks my heart that brick and mortar book stores are closing across the country! I don't know about you but I need the physical satisfaction of turning a tangible page to get the feeling that I'm actually reading; The sort of stillness feeling you get when it's rainy and grey and you have an amazing cup of hot whatever-you-like-to-drink while cuddling up with a wool blanket and a wonderful story. That is what I want. Call me old-fashioned, but I love it.
Stories are such powerful things and the way you experience them makes all the difference in the world. It's like a movie with a great plot but an awful director.. it just doesn't do the trick.
I love writing too. I'm known for slipping unexpected letters into friends' jacket pockets when they aren't looking. You could call it nostalgia, but seeing as I'm still just a kid and I'm only growing in to this habit, I blame it more on the fact that I was born in the wrong generation.
Unfortunately (and I won't go too deep in to this) I came down with an illness when I was 9 that has since made it very difficult for my brain&body to function normally. Extreme fatigue and almost ADD-like symptoms have plagued me for 7 years. Im that kid who loves learning, is a teacher's pet, gets the A plus PLUS on every project, and yearns for extra credit work so this has been difficult as you can imagine. The wonderful thing is lately I've been starting to get my brain to focus more which allows me to read! I long for those days of clarity in my brain, though few and far between, that i get to enjoy a book.
Im also very musical so I've tried to jot my thoughts down to see what they might turn in to, but so far - nothing. I use to be rich with songs, but now I can't help but think that this is partly Twitter's fault. I've gotten so good at putting everything I need to in to 140 characters that I've forgotten how to elaborate. And what a shame that is.
I tend to find myself with older friends, and I think part of that is kids my age can;t carry on a conversation, especially in person! then less than 5minutes in they whip out the newest smartphone and all hope for an intellectual conversation is lost.
So excuse my rant about how MY generation has lost the fundamental, purest essence of story telling. All we can do is try to restore it.
Although I have some minor set backs I will continue to read and write like every generation before me and I plan to teach the same to my children someday.
And for the record, I totally know who Doris Day and Cary Grant are.
Keep leading your own path Joy! I'll be happy to follow.
XO Caroline Grace
I hope you enjoyed my ... elderly take on some fundamentals as far as my generation is concerned.
No I did not post this specifically for your enjoyment, but I hope it interests you anyway,
&Yes, whenever I get inspired and end up writing I slap a title on and post it.
I'm odd, but prefer the term eclectic.
If you read my blog, there is one other you should definitely be keeping up with.
^^That, my dear readers, is a website containing the thoughts and adventures of one Bethany Joy Galeotti.
She's a woman I admire tremendously. Actor, wife, mother. Fashionable, Charitable, Funny, honest.
This woman has it all goin on.
To complete this rave here is a recent post of Joy's in which my comment was:
I completely agree! Sometimes I feel like I should've been born before technology took over our lives, or was even intended for that matter. (Then I remember how much I love air conditioning and being treated with respect as a women and I snap out of it.. but that is not the point!)
I too adore writing and the older I get the more I wish people still wrote letters and took time to put thoughts on paper. I may only be 16, but I have that "Damn kids these days!" attitude most days. I can't stand reading on kindles and it breaks my heart that brick and mortar book stores are closing across the country! I don't know about you but I need the physical satisfaction of turning a tangible page to get the feeling that I'm actually reading; The sort of stillness feeling you get when it's rainy and grey and you have an amazing cup of hot whatever-you-like-to-drink while cuddling up with a wool blanket and a wonderful story. That is what I want. Call me old-fashioned, but I love it.
Stories are such powerful things and the way you experience them makes all the difference in the world. It's like a movie with a great plot but an awful director.. it just doesn't do the trick.
I love writing too. I'm known for slipping unexpected letters into friends' jacket pockets when they aren't looking. You could call it nostalgia, but seeing as I'm still just a kid and I'm only growing in to this habit, I blame it more on the fact that I was born in the wrong generation.
Unfortunately (and I won't go too deep in to this) I came down with an illness when I was 9 that has since made it very difficult for my brain&body to function normally. Extreme fatigue and almost ADD-like symptoms have plagued me for 7 years. Im that kid who loves learning, is a teacher's pet, gets the A plus PLUS on every project, and yearns for extra credit work so this has been difficult as you can imagine. The wonderful thing is lately I've been starting to get my brain to focus more which allows me to read! I long for those days of clarity in my brain, though few and far between, that i get to enjoy a book.
Im also very musical so I've tried to jot my thoughts down to see what they might turn in to, but so far - nothing. I use to be rich with songs, but now I can't help but think that this is partly Twitter's fault. I've gotten so good at putting everything I need to in to 140 characters that I've forgotten how to elaborate. And what a shame that is.
I tend to find myself with older friends, and I think part of that is kids my age can;t carry on a conversation, especially in person! then less than 5minutes in they whip out the newest smartphone and all hope for an intellectual conversation is lost.
So excuse my rant about how MY generation has lost the fundamental, purest essence of story telling. All we can do is try to restore it.
Although I have some minor set backs I will continue to read and write like every generation before me and I plan to teach the same to my children someday.
And for the record, I totally know who Doris Day and Cary Grant are.
Keep leading your own path Joy! I'll be happy to follow.
XO Caroline Grace
I hope you enjoyed my ... elderly take on some fundamentals as far as my generation is concerned.
No I did not post this specifically for your enjoyment, but I hope it interests you anyway,
&Yes, whenever I get inspired and end up writing I slap a title on and post it.
I'm odd, but prefer the term eclectic.
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