I think I might need new business cards. My old ones are beginning to bore me. But now I have to decide how much info I want on my card, what I want it to say about me, etc. I’ve been playing with something like this. What do you think?
Today I went to my aunt’s memorial service. She was an amazing woman who made enormous differences in people’s lives. Through her generosity of spirit, her activism, her medical and psychiatric practice and her personal belief in doing all she could to help those less fortunate, she improved so many lives. Many of the people who benefited—and will continue to benefit in the future—because of the things she did will never even know her name.
If I started tomorrow, I could never hope to have that kind of impact. My charitable footprint is smaller, though I do my best. When I go, I hope I have planted half as many good things in the world as she did.
RIP, Sonja.
Hat tip: @xeni on Twitter
Two pieces of news for the Star Wars geeks among us (like yours truly).
First, as you may or may not know, the White House was petitioned to “secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016” through the We The People site. The petition gathered enough signatures to require a response and earlier this week Paul Shawcross, Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget, wrote the most amazing response…ever.
The awesomeness begins with the response’s title: This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For. And it just gets better. You should read the whole thing, but the top reasons Shawcross gives are:
And then there is the rumor, according to Entertainment Weekly, that:
ABC entertainment president Paul Lee says he’s going to take a look at the long-gestating Star Wars live-action TV series now that the Disney deal to acquire Lucasfilm is complete.
“We’d love to do something with Lucasfilm, we’re not sure what yet,” Lee exclusively told EW. “We haven’t even sat down with them. We’re going to look at [the live-action series], we’re going to look at all of them, and see what’s right. We weren’t able to discuss this with them until [the acquisition] closed and it just closed. It’s definitely going to be part of the conversation.”
As usual, the thought of such a thing is both marvelous and terrible. I mean, the first three movies were so great and the second were so…not. The EW article sounds promising—series to be set in the seedy underworld of the Empire between the two series with a bounty hunter as the lead character. Lots of potential. But we’ve seen both Disney and Lucasfilm squander potential in the past.
So it’s been a fun week for Star Wars fans all the way around!
Over at Women of Mystery, I am celebrating my good fortune by giving away money to classrooms in need. There are all kinds of classrooms that need help, from art and music to science and technology, from kindergartens to senior year. There are classrooms affected (decimated) by hurricane Sandy. There are classrooms that were in need long before a hurricane came through. You can pick which classrooms get the help by entering to win a $20 Donors Choose gift certificate. I’ll send you the GC code, you pick the classroom to give the money to. So head over and enter!