Awaiting Rapture
Awaiting Rapture Daily Photo Not every one awaiting Jesus has a purely spiritual outlook.
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Awaiting Rapture Daily Photo Not every one awaiting Jesus has a purely spiritual outlook.
Read moreMaypole Maiden In the country, high in the hills overlooking the Eel River valley, a small school helps support itself with 3 community fundraisers every year. Of course the parents do other things to raise money but 3 times a year they throw a party for their community. In these far flung areas a “neighbor” can be a 30 minute
Read moreShould kids earn money for testing well? 23 schools in Brooklyn hand out monetary rewards in exchange for high scores in math and reading. Mayor Bloomberg set up what he calls an ‘anti-poverty initiative’ with money raised from private sources such as the Rockefeller Foundation. The Sparks Program aims to motivate students with cash rewards to do well on
Read moreLaundromats exude a numbing bleakness. Generally dirty, overused, and overpriced, they squeeze money one quarter at a time from people poor enough to cry when they spill milk. However, in the towns of Southern Humboldt, washing ones’ dirty linen in public can be an edifying and amusing experience. When young hill men come into large amounts of cash, they
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