#Do Good

[flybykime]

When I was in high school, me and the guy I was dating at the time found a lost bumper cover blocking a lane on the road. Now, this was a small town side road and we were the sort used to moving critters out of the road, so moving a loose bit of car debris was a pretty normal activity. Then a local cop rolled up. Apparently, several people had called it in, but no one had stopped. That cover piece is just plastic… the cop was surprised to find us there… we were honestly baffled. It can take so little to improve your environment. You’re a part of it after all.

There’s this guy in town who owns this little house, and a while back he rescued a street dog that was going to get put down. Turned out she was pregnant.

Problem is, he has mental health & drug issues and couldn’t afford to get them all spayed & neutered, so now there are 6 grown bitches with 15 puppies total, and they’ve dug under his fence in multiple places but he can’t afford to fix it so they go roaming all around town. (When I say can’t afford it, I mean his house is currently running on a generator because he can’t afford his electric bill.) He’s also a day laborer so he cannot take multiple full days off work to take them to the vet an hour away. He’s in a really rough spot.

He’s not a bad person. He’s just overwhelmed.

And this little conservative town with 6 churches for 300 people, have they tried to help their neighbor? Have they adopted the puppies he’s been trying to give away? Have they offered resources?

NOPE! All they wanna do is talk shit about him and complain about the dogs but never lift a finger of their own. And they come to his house to yell at him and cuss him out about the dogs, which does not exactly engender in him a cooperative attitude, as you might imagine.

So after a while of this going on, my mom gets fed up with all the NIMBY bullshit and starts talking to the guy, because she’s done animal rescue for 20-odd years and has Connections. He’s resistant at first, but when he realizes she’s not being an asshole to him on account of his addiction or the dogs, he decides to let her help.

She gets to work organizing and networking. Finds a non-profit that will cover vaccinations, spay/neuter, and flea treatments for all the dogs. Talks the next-door neighbor into paying for materials to fix the fence, since this guy can do the work of it himself. Gets him in touch with another non-profit that will adopt out the adult dogs.

Less than 2 weeks after she decided to do something, all puppies have been to the vet, 10 puppies and 4 adult dogs have been adopted out, and the second non-profit is coming by next week to pick up the remaining 7 dogs to ship them out for adoption.

I’ve learned a lot of things from my mom—some good, some bad—but I think the most important positive message she lives as an example of is this: sometimes, when something needs done and no one else is willing, you gotta stand up and say “I’ll do it.”

[dk-thrive]

I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

— Arthur Conan Doyle, from "XVI. Oakley Villas, Birchespool, 4th November, 1884" in ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels, 188 Short Stories, 88 Poems & 7 Plays, Including Works on Spirituality, Historical Writings & Personal Memoirs (Good Press Publishing, January 16, 2024) (via Alive on All Channels)

[katelynnwrites]

germany if ya'll don't ball out now...

[deenandcoffee]

افعل الخير يأتيك الخير

Do good, and good will come to you.

[azeutreciathewicked]

Cancelling a person or media does little if anything to help the victims/survivors of violence. Harassing other people who are just as uninvolved does nothing and is in fact terrible and counterproductive.

Instead, send money or other resources to organizations that actually help survivors. Volunteer for a help line. Donate to a shelter for queer youth or DV survivors.

I'm not familiar with legitimate non-U.S. organizations and don't want to risk promoting a bad one. So if anyone has suggestions that are vetted, please add them on.

If you are upset enough to feel the need to do something, make it something constructive instead of destructive.

[darthschabba]

" Do Good recklessly. "

[tator-soup]

If You Did Not Vote, Then Your Opinion Means Nothing.

“It’s because I didn’t like either of them!”

That’s not the Point. You didn’t use your vote to share your voice so you don’t get to share it now. You don’t have the moral high ground just because you didn’t vote. You’ve doomed us because you didn’t vote.

If you did not vote, YOUR OPINION MEANS NOTHING.

[serenityquest]

[theonlinevegan]

[gnosisandtheosis]

"Everyone that desires salvation must not only avoid evil, but is obliged to do good, just as it says in the Psalm: "Depart from evil and do good" (Psalm 34:14). For example, if somebody was angry, he must not only not get angry, but also become meek; if somebody was proud, he must not only refrain from being proud but also become humble. Thus, every passion has an opposing virtue: pride — humility, stinginess — charity, lust — chastity, faintheartedness — patience, anger — meekness, hatred — love."

- St Dorotheus of Gaza

[wiirocku]

1 Peter 3:11 (NLT) - Turn away from evil and do good. Search for peace, and work to maintain it.

[dk-thrive]

Small circle, private life, simple pleasures, grateful heart, clear conscience, peaceful mind.

— Unknown. (via Tiny Buddha)

[shake-your-money-maker]

[neverluckygoldfish]

E. Russell

[your-heart-is-a-treasure]

Your values become your destiny.