Water

Yesterday I found a bottle of water. I didn't bring it up then, but the message from Peter Singer's book "The Life You Can Save," keeps ringing in my ears. How so many, many, many people around the world fight to stay alive. For them food, water, and shelter are an important feature of the day. A feature that may not be taken for granted as much as I do. Those people, our neighbors, are living on less each day that what that bottle of water may have cost the

previous owner. More often now, I'm able to look at little things that I used to buy (candy, soda, processed food) and put a face behind the price. It may not be a direct connection, it may never reach the needy, but couldn't I find a better way of spending a dollar than on something I don't need. Singer's book was pushing me to look at better ways to invest my money. Things such as saving someone's life.

Good chat with a friend at the recreation center today about land rights and big money corportations. How can we be part of the