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March 10, 2020
Dinner tonight is Mexican, my favorite. This time it's tostadas (fried tortillas topped with refried beans, meat, and/or vegetables) with salsa and spanish rice (which is actually not from Spain at all, but Mexico). Most of the ingredients come from either my garden or my food storage: the tortillas are made from the masa…
ContinuePosted on April 3, 2010 at 9:00am — 1 Comment
As you say, we should strive to help people to support themselves. I have actually been doing exactly this for some time; self-reliance is an important principle taught in my church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The principle is as follows: we make sure to support ourselves financially, nutritionally, and spiritually, and thus put ourselves in the position to help others do the same. We stress the…
ContinuePosted on April 2, 2010 at 10:00am
Ten years from now, I will be 25 years old. Obviously at this point I will still be young and not long out of college, possibly married, and definitely running my own home. I don't honestly imagine myself living in China still at this time; instead, I'd want to live in a rural area, having an established career and managing a small farm in my spare time. I'd probably be in either Arizona or Utah. At some point, I want to…
ContinuePosted on April 2, 2010 at 9:42am
"Talk to the people who have the problem – and LISTEN to what they have to say."
You can't create a solution until you fully understand the problem, and the best way (indeed, the only true way) to understand the problem is to ask those who already understand it best. For example, if you want to improve the economic situation of…
ContinuePosted on April 2, 2010 at 6:00am
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