P:ear

Thursday, December 23rd 2010

Tonight I'm meeting my girlfriends for dinner and to celebrate Christmas- our 2nd annual gathering!

Last year, we exchanged gifts with each other, but this year we decided we'd each buy a gift for an organization called p:ear, who "builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm personal worth and create more meaningful and healthier lives". Here is their website if you'd like to take a look:

http://pearmentor.blogspot.com/

They are asking for art supplies, school supplies, books, socks, and anything else that might help local youth in need. I was going to pick up a gift card to the bookstore, but ended up on the art/school supply aisle in the store instead. I was having so much fun filling up my basket with notepads, watercolor paints, glue, scissors, markers and lots of other fun stuff. It was great!

It reminded me of when I was younger and going back to school. Those things excite me a ton and it felt so good to know a young teen might really enjoy painting and drawing with the supplies I was picking out for them.

Peace :)