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Awesome day for the Mend ladies mendproject: Flying high: Mend...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:06:21 -0400

Awesome day for the Mend ladies

mendproject:

Flying high: Mend visits a ropes course

Recently, the ladies at Mend stepped out of their comfort zone and into a series of zip lines, climbing walls and critical thinking games. As a teambuilding exercise, they participated in various ropes course activities facilitated by The Recreation Project, an organization that uses the fun experience of a ropes course to teach “the important life-skills and character-building skills needed to navigate a new landscape that for decades has been defined by war and conflict.” Through the activities, the women learned principles like teamwork, planning, creative problem solving, and building self-confidence.

“Planning is vital,” Aber Rose decided after carefully making her way through the spider web low-ropes challenge. “Before this experience, I used to not value planning. I would instead buy what I did not plan for.”

They also learned that their actions can affect others beyond themselves, whether family members or the other seamstresses at Mend. All of the women took hold of the same rope, and one pulled hard on the end. The rest were asked to describe how they felt the effect of that one person’s pull.

“Through the hard pull; I noticed that anything harsh you do directly or indirectly affects people around you,” Amono Lily said.

Whether it was overcoming their fears to step off the zip line, building the confidence to climb a wall, or navigating a spider web of ropes, the women had a great time and are already looking forward to their next trip to The Recreation Project. Watch the video to see the ladies flying high on the zipline!

Program photos

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:57:04 -0400

Program photos

Sharing #kony2012 and interviewing local leaders (Taken with...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:04:52 -0400

Sharing #kony2012 and interviewing local leaders (Taken with Instagram at Gulu, Uganda)

deanbradshaw: Pixar animator Austin Madison penned a...

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:22:24 -0400

deanbradshaw:

Pixar animator Austin Madison penned a wonderful handwritten open letter to aspiring artists and creative professionals everywhere as part of an Animators Letters Project back in May this year.

Madison advises budding and experienced animators alike to work through the times when they are feeling uninspired and down in the dumps—because it happens with everyone, including the best people at Pixar—and work through them. As he so eloquently puts it, “the art will be well worth the work”.

iaminuganda: Coming into the office at 6:30am on a...

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:20:31 -0400

iaminuganda:

Coming into the office at 6:30am on a Saturday…sounds like my life back in San Diego. Getting ready to do an interview with Bishop Mark Baker Ochola, Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative.

Too good and too true. We spotted this little guy on our walk...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:42:36 -0400

Too good and too true. We spotted this little guy on our walk today.

iaminuganda:

Brandon Tauszik as a goat

I met some friends at the church across the street from our home...

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:26:55 -0400

I met some friends at the church across the street from our home today, they showed me how to play netball… such a fun evening.

M7 motel swag.

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:41:16 -0400

M7 motel swag.

Motel swag.

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:02:24 -0400

Motel swag.

"Better get under your net, mosquitoes aren’t nocturnal."

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:35:46 -0400

““Better get under your net, mosquitoes aren’t nocturnal.””

- K.Tro - 6 p.m. at night.

himynameisannie: this really impacted me today.

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:33:14 -0400

himynameisannie:

this really impacted me today.

My hometown.. getting shit done. I’m...

Fri, 27 May 2011 17:23:48 -0400

My hometown.. getting shit done. I’m proud.

chadwickgantes:

OHHH my gosh… A whole city responds to an article stating that it was one of the highest “America’s Dying Cities”

thedailywhat:

Lip Dub of the Day: Newsweek published an article a while back which stated that Grand Rapids, Michigan, is high up on the list of America’s “Dying Cities.”

So Grand Rapids responded by getting 5,000 residents together to perform an elaborate lip dub of Don McLean’s “American Pie.” Obviously.

Newsweek subsequently offered Grand Rapids a contrite rejoinder, saying the article was picked up as part of a content sharing deal with mainstreet.com and was not penned by Newsweek. “it uses a methodology that our current editorial team doesn’t endorse and wouldn’t have employed,” Newsweek goes on to say. “It certainly doesn’t reflect our view of Grand Rapids.”

Oh, get a room.

[gawker.]

Video

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:47:31 -0400

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all..."

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:41:40 -0400

“

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference

”

- Robert Frost

- Leo Tolstoy

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:54:00 -0400

- Leo Tolstoy

watch: be disgusted, empowered, hopeful and in awe.

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:12:38 -0400

watch: be disgusted, empowered, hopeful and in awe.

awesome. chadwickgantes: @chadclendinen let’s making this cool

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:45:37 -0400

awesome.

chadwickgantes:

@chadclendinen let’s making this cool

::drool::

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:49:13 -0400

::drool::

"I’ve loved you before I love you this instant and I’ll love you again."

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:05:00 -0400

“I’ve loved you before
I love you this instant and
I’ll love you again.”

- Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

Photo

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:28:36 -0400