"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

My T -Shirt Was Found in Africa

I can't verify the story. But I do trust the source. As you know all the donated cloths in North America and Europe end up in African and Asian markets and sold to locals at .50 cent an item. My friend Wayne, worked in Liberia for many years, and a short term work team came. During their stay, one of the young men in his late teens spotted a kid, with familiar T - shirt, walking down a dusty path in a village. The T-shirt was one he and his brother were given, and wore when he was younger, 7-8 yrs earlier. It was unique, and one of the American young man's favorite. He remembered the day it went missing in his drawer, and asked his mom where it went. She said she had cleaned out old and worn cloths in ever ones drawers, and thrown them out. She dropped them off at good will, or salvation army or something of the like.
Anyway, the young man ran down the kid, and turned up the tag just to see.... Sure enough, the stage had his name written on it. It was his T T-shirt. Of hundreds of countries, tens of thousands of  villages, and millions of kids, his parents bought it, and the original owner came to work in that same village for two weeks.

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