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It's hard to believe 2011 is over and 2012 is here! So much has happened this past year that I had to go over past blog entries to help refresh my memory. Here are some highlights of my year:
- visited Haiti and saw old friends and made new ones
- began my second year in my volunteer job for Danita's Children
- went vegan for 21 days
- began a cookbook project for low income families [close to completion]
- completed 4 grad school classes
- started shopping more consciously - no bananas due to environmental degradation; fair trade chocolate, coffee, and tea due to child slavery
- worked on the CROP walk for the first time
- got involved with Grace and Main, a great homeless ministry
- hosted two of the children from the His Little Feet Children's Choir Haitian group when they were in town
- Bill retired from the practice of law
- finished reading the Bible in a year
- worked on ways to refuse/reduce/reuse/recycle
- continued my "use it up" quest to use what I already have before buying replacements for food, cosmetics, etc.
- successfully completed a 3-month no shopping challenge
- attended Wild Goose Festival where I got to see a lot of progressive/liberal Christians - some heroes of mine, such as Jim Wallis and Brian McClaren, and some new to me, such as John Dear, Jay Bakker, Nadia Bolz-Weber, and Jennifer Knapp
- saw Sister Helen Prejean (of Dead Man Walking fame) speak
- saw student production of Dead Man Walking and heard a first-hand account of a man sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit (he was since exonorated)
A very busy and fulfilling year. Can't wait to see what 2012 has in store!
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year,
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