Eve "Social Media" Butterflies

“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout: This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me… or leave me. Accept me – or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don’t fit your idea of who I should be and don’t try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.” -Stacey Charter

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made. And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you posses. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.” ~Kent Nerburn

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Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life.  And everyone deserves a little sunshine.  ~Jeffrey Glassberg

When considering the limitations we allow to stop our daily achievement efforts, in a place where we have nearly everything at our fingertips, this is a person to truly admire and support. At age fourteen William Kamkwamba had to drop of school in Malawi due to food and resource limitations that made school tuition, ($80 per year) the least of his family’s worries. However, William’s love for learning didn’t stop there. He continued to visit his local library where he came upon a book about windmills. Knowing the abundance of natural wind resource all around him, William decided he would help his family and hopefully also find a way back to school by building a windmill from this book. His inability to read all of the text in this book did in no way inhibit his efforts; he followed pictures/diagrams and used scraps he collected to create this first windmill on his family farm. He even created his own light switches! All of this at fourteen years old, in spite of the “crazy” whispers of those around him. His windmills now power his farm’s irrigation systems and electricity to his family’s home.

Perseverance when the “wind” is against you gives me faith and hope of my fellow earth cohabitants and I wish there were more William Kamkwambas in the world. William is continuing his education, has written a book and is working on a documentary. Watch his interviews and fall for his sense of humor and smile for yourself. Then help support his continuing effort to help his family, village and education.

“I would like to say something to all the people out there like me, to the Africans, and the poor who are struggling with your dreams,  God bless, maybe one day you watch this on the internet, I say to you, trust yourself and believe, whatever happens don’t give up. ” ~William Kamkwamba’s closing statement of his TED Talk

http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Short film Moving Windmills which is being made into a feature-length documentary:

TED Talk

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ~Maya Angelou

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