I just recently discovered shareurmeal.com run by a few great people here in Philadelphia. While many of us take in the luxury of dining out…or even dining in our nice warm homes, someone else isn’t as lucky and is going hungry.
You can help to make a difference in the lives of those going hungry in southeastern Pennsylvania when you are savoring your own food. Create an account on shareurmeal.com. When you’re dining on scrumptious yumminess, go ahead and snap a photo of your meal with your fancy little phone. Email that photo to the designated email address provided through shareurmeal or simply upload it directly to the site with a caption that describes the meal. For this small fraction of your time, a sponsor will dedicate $1 for every meal posted to United Way’s LIVE UNITED: Food for Thought initiative, which is a campaign to beat rising hunger in Southeastern Pennsylvania. And you don’t need to live in Pennsylvania to do this, but know that you are helping someone through this one small task.
I can only hope that others throughout the country and the world catch on to create great social change in the simplest of ways such as this. Thanksgiving in the US is right around the corner. So when you’re chowing down on your dead animal, think about the number of people that it could have fed or the people who don’t even have the luxury of doing the same with their family and friends. Instead, they’re digging your turkey scraps out of the dumpster the day after Thanksgiving.
Today I had these amazing huevos rancheros at Sabrina’s Cafe in South Philly, I posted the photo to shareurmeal and Drexel University donated a $1 to the cause. Now it’s your turn. So pass it forward!
At least 1,000 people filled the Piazza in Northern Liberties to watch the Phillies clench the 2009 National League title on the huge Jumbotron TV. We grabbed our lawn chairs and headed out to celebrate the excitement of watching the game there. I left at the 7th inning to head into the city. I walked around on Broad Street, hearing the screams of excitement resonating throughout the streets as people watched at the nearby bars. Philly cops were wearing riot helmets, mounted police officers waited on their horses, lamp posts were greased on Broad Street, and some newspaper boxes were removed. When the Phillies won, people filled the streets…celebrating every way they knew how. Of course, it was nothing like last year when the Phillies won the World Series, but people were happy and that’s what this city needs. Now the Phillies are off to the 2009 World Series! Go Phillies!!
A big huge thanks to istockphoto for making one of my images the Free Image of the Week on the front page of the site! And many thanks to my awesome model, Arthur, for making this image happen!
If you have an istockphoto account, download it while it’s hot! After all, it’s free! There will be another free image available every Sunday on istockphoto.
And if you don’t already have an account on istock, send me an email and I can hook you up with a referral and some free credits to use as well! Enjoy!
I’m back from Maine. I drove 12 hours straight to get home on Saturday. Just really tired from driving long periods of time for over 2 weeks. I’ve been really busy trying to catch up on things after being gone for a while and preparing to head off again in less than a month, all the while dealing with all of the things that life throws at us. Like food poisoning, which I’m currently trying to get over. blah.
There’s a gorgeous view from the top of Cadillac Mountain, but it was quite foggy at the top when I visited earlier this week. Nevertheless, the fog provided some amazing photo ops. I love fog. It always makes everything look so colorful and mysterious.
