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Thursday December 22, 2022 · 6:27 AM PST

2022/12/22 · 06:27

Reposting In case you missed it last time. ShelterBox links at the end. Also ShelterBox is on the ground in the Ukraine helping with the poor people of the Ukraine. You can look at the links and see things you can gift to people and send to help where needed.

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A few weeks ago my daughter took me to see this production as a birthday present. This young man in a big chair presented the Christmas Carol and did all the characters and voices! He was most excellent.

Here is the San Antonio Express News article about the performance.

‘Yes, actors with disabilities, we are here’: San Antonio man performs Christmas play in wheelchair

The San Antonio station for Texas Public Radio had him record his performance and added old time sound effects also for the radio performance.

A Christmas Carol

A One-man Play Adapted by Greg Oliver Bodine

Based on the Novella by Charles Dickens

This is the link to the station but it isn’t on the schedule yet.

Texas Public Radio

So make a date with your loved ones, turn off all the lights except the tree and listen to this lovely performance I am sharing with you.

Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Also wish my friends a lovely and warm Hanukka! Lovely Kwanza to all!

And of course it is hard for me to write here without reminding you of the wonderful work of ShelterBox everyday. The are in Ukraine trying to keep people warm!

Please visit ShelterBox USA to see what they are doing now around the world.

This link takes you to where you can buy small gifts of ShelterBox items to buy for Christmas.

ShelterBox gifts.

These items are tangible and real. They don’t need to be downloaded or printed they go directly to a family in great need.

Rec the ShelterBoxes for Haiti diary please

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Sunday March 01, 2020 · 5:12 AM PST

2020/03/01 · 05:12

The ShelterBox for Haiti diary has fallen off of the Rec List again. This is not good, so go thou and recommend it. It may be found here ShelterBox

Yes, this isn't a diary, I know that, no go recommend the ShelterBox diary.

kthxbye.

TexMex

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Sunday March 01, 2020 · 5:11 AM PST

2020/03/01 · 05:11

https://www.facebook.com/...

All you have to do is ‘like’ ShelterBox Canada on Facebook. Starting from 22 May through to the end of Big ShelterBox Week, if they gain 5,000 new likes, its Board of Directors have pledged CAN$5,000 to bring shelter, warmth and hope to five families who have lost everything in a disaster.

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Sunday March 01, 2020 · 5:10 AM PST

2020/03/01 · 05:10

It’s been a tough week for anyone with even a twinge of humanity. It has been impossible to not be buffeted by heart-rending images and stories of unimaginable horror. Tonight I would like to offer a brief respite for Kossacks in both camps. For those who want to do something, here is something you can DO – right now, in just a few seconds, for free. And then there is a little something uplifting for those who want to talk about something else.

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Sunday March 01, 2020 · 5:09 AM PST

2020/03/01 · 05:09

Hai everyone! We willz bee posting diareez all weekend called "Pooties 4 Haiti" cuz we want the whole world to know that we too supportz the peoplez that need help after the earthquake distruction in Haiti. Pleeeeeeze...if you can, follow one of theze linkz and donate today!

Pooties, Woozles and other Critters for Haiti

Go below the fold and enjoy some cuteness and then get on over to the latest link to donate or just add your rec. for the Haiti earthquake victims.

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Sunday March 01, 2020 · 5:09 AM PST

2020/03/01 · 05:09

Way back on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 6am Denver time, I was in an airplane getting ready for take off.

This flight would take me to North Carolina for a one hour layover and then home to Massachusetts - where I would get home in time to cast my vote for Martha Coakley (which I did).

This trip and flight back was memorable for many reasons. One of those reasons was the phone call I got while sitting in the airplane, on the tarmac (apron) waiting to be pushed back from the gate . . .

Lefty Coaster

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Sunday March 01, 2020 · 5:06 AM PST

2020/03/01 · 05:06

After arriving on earthquake stricken Bohol Island my first task was to reach Project Bohol's base near the town of Antequera, and to do that I had to cross the river next to the collapsed Arbatan Bridge by hiring an outrigger canoe, as a new temporary bridge was being erected in its place.

After crossing the river I hired a motorized tricycle for the rest of the trip. As we went up the road I saw dozens of collapsed homes, signs painted across the roadway so large it could be seen by the air with the message: "We need Help" and signs along the side saying "We need Food and Water" and a grim on that read "Dead Lydy" (Lady). Bohol suffered comparatively minor damage from Typhoon Yolanda compared to the neighboring island of Lyte, were All Hands is about to launch two new projects to help disaster victims there.

Volunteers with Project Bohol come from all over the world. On my first day I was assigned to one of the several All Hands Project Bohol teams, and we de-constructed this wrecked house, saving the materials for potential use during reconstruction.

The family living next to this destroyed home requested to be provided with a Shelter Box as some of their neighbors across the road already were living in like this one with a collapsed church just up the road.

Project Bohol assigned the team I was part of to their fellow volunteer Patrick from Redmond Washington to train us to set up the Shelter Box tents.

All Hands Volunteers from Canada the US and Mauritius help to set up a Shelter Box Tent.

After we finished the elderly homeowner told each one of us on the verge of tears: "I love you."

It was also meant for all of the generous people who hlped buy her Shelter Box, and those who helped All Hands Project Bohol help with our work with victims of these disasters.

This was the shelter an extended family of 11 was living in before we set up their Shelter Box tent next to it.

Lefty Coaster

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Sunday March 01, 2020 · 5:06 AM PST

2020/03/01 · 05:06

I finished my three weeks of working with All Hands Volunteers' Project Bohol in the area around Antequera on Bohol Island yesterday. It was an unforgettable experience for me and all of the other volunteers who came to Bohol from all over the world to help earthquake victims directly with our own labor.

A devastated neighborhood (barrio) in Antequera as Project Bohol begins to take down and de-construct the wrecked buildings. This area looks very different today, but more work still remains.

A local woman weaves a basket. The residents of Antequera are renown for their handicrafts.

We worked to de-construct wrecked homes, schools, and chapels, while salvaging as much of the materials as possible for reconstruction. Building materials are expensive commodities for these rural people.

It is very hard work. It wasn't unusual for me to drink a gallon of water during a day's work. It was essential to take breaks in some shade periodically during the work exposed to the blazing tropical sun and high humidity.

Thanksgiving dinner at Project Bohol.

Volunteers reached our job sites in Jeepneys loaded with wheelbarrows full of tools and ladders. De-construction is very hard on our tools with many breaking creating a constant need to purchase new tools. I bought a large pair of bolt cutters when I got an opportunity while visiting Tagbilaran City Bohol's largest city to use to cut rebar. We seemed to always be short of a few of the tools we needed.

Most of the volunteers slept in tents we brought with us.

Due to the space limitations inside many volunteers rode on the roof or holding on to the back of the Jeepney.

A homeowner talks with an All Hands work team about which direction he wants his Shelter Box tent's entrance to face. We had to demolish a section of the concrete floor to create a level site for this Shelter Box tent.

TexMex

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Sunday March 01, 2020 · 4:57 AM PST

2020/03/01 · 04:57

We are all following the events in Egypt. We are all praying and waiting for Mubarak to leave and let the people of Egypt move into the present. I hope for that too.
But we can do more than walk and chew gum at the same time. The ShelterBox representatives rejoiced last night, but today it is back to the grunt work of getting the word out on ShelterBox. They were fanning out today to practice their chops on our Federal officials. I wish them the best with their awareness and friendship building.

Earthquake in Myanmar/ India border.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/...

TexMex

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Sunday March 01, 2020 · 4:55 AM PST

2020/03/01 · 04:55

Hi all,
TexMex is officially out of her house, and has very little internet access. Which means that whatever happens to this diary I won't know. I probably will also lose TU while on the road. Please rec this diary and report donations that the Kos community can add up in my absence. and/or please report to carolina stargazer who has been very patiently waiting.

TexMex

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Sunday March 01, 2020 · 4:54 AM PST

2020/03/01 · 04:54

Let's buy another shelter box!
One box cost 1,000.00 dollars.
http://www.shelterboxusa.org/

http://www.shelterboxusa.org/

I started off for us on friday.
http://www.dailykos.com/...

TexMex

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Sunday March 01, 2020 · 4:53 AM PST

2020/03/01 · 04:53

Yesterday after posting a comment on another diary about Burma ......
Can't we concentrate on Myanmar and forget about superdelegates for one day?
by proud2Bliberal

I posted a link to a Rotary supported program that puts together shelterboxes for disaster relief.
http://www.shelterboxusa.org/
As a frequent commenter but not a writer of diaries, I thought, "well hell I'll just thow one up and see if I can get a few dollars."
My diary written in hast was lame with some broken links and some peole thought it was a scam. But of course my fellow Kossacks checked it out and recomended it! I don't know how to post pictures and stuff but the members of the Daily Kos pictched in and raised 595 dolars towards a 1,000 box!......

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