fish for all!

 

Kiva sent me an email this morning: I had money to lend again!

Best of all, there was enough in that account to even cover the lending fee, so Kiva wouldn't have to do so.

Perfect!

That meant I had a question to answer: who would I choose?

Well, as it turned out, that wasn't such a hard choice after all.

I knew I would be dining on seafood tonight, thanks to Smitty, my brother.

 

When I read that Marie of Sierra Leone was requesting a loan to purchase more fish to sell, I knew that was the right one for me!

Right place, right time.

That makes the twelfth open loan that I have on Kiva right now.

All of the other 145 loans I've made over the years have been repaid, so those are all regarded as closed.

The mother of four is still needed a few more backers to fund her loan.

I made sure to post a few words of support on her wall.

Hope that encourages others to help her.

(smile!) 

again... no drilling off Georgia coast!!!

How many times do we have to tell our elected officials in Washington, DC, and in Atlanta, GA, that drilling off this southern coast is a terrible idea?

If nothing else, the increased number of hurricanes that speed up that Atlantic Ocean side should give them pause about the horrific man-made disaster that would occur to complicate the natural disaster of ultra-high winds and storms... right?

So when One Hundred Miles asked me to respond, I did.

 

"Please spare Georgia's coast!!!
This is where right whales come to raise their young...
this is where loggerhead sea turtles come to lay their eggs...
this is where Americans from the Southeast 

come to have fun with their children.
Please... allow this coast to be free from oil and gas companies.
Thank you!" 

 

That should soon be posted at Regulations.gov, for all the world to see.

I'll be looking for it.