ART: Teaching Kids Volunteerism

Tamara (Poelstra) remembers one particular one time when she brought her daughters to a soup kitchen. They weren’t all warm and fuzzy about going yet they each contributed in a positive way. And then there is the gift in the outreach. Tamara remembers hearing a lot of laughing in the corner that day. She looked over, and there was her daughter, teaching some of the homeless kids how to play the card game Speed. They all were having a blast. “It changed the feeling in the entire room,” she says/ Beth Bollinger , Accidental Rabbit Trails. More here .

• Overaged Easter bunnies /Bay Views
• Tweet? No thanks /Community Comment
• I’ve moved on but that doesn’t change what happened /F-Words
• Random Bits: Bread crumbs and chicken chow main /Get Out! North Idaho
• Remembering Good Friday past /Slight Detour
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Question: How important is it to you to install a sense of volunteerism in your children?

• She did it /A Family Runs Through It
• It’s Good Friday, do you know where your Bible is?/ Arch Druid
• I did it again /Hauser Thoughts
• Take up the cross /Live, Love, Laugh, Hope
• Good, it’s Friday /Synaptic Disunion
• Egg moon /Notes from the ‘Kan EWA

HBO Numbers: 6407/3137