Found this wonderful article from Psychology Today by Jay Dixit. This is one of the best articles I’ve read ever and I enjoin you to read until the end.

The other day, I saw a beggar on my way home from work. He was eating food from a plastic bag he probably got from the food stall nearby. A really thin dog and a scraggly cat passed by and he took some of the food given to him and shared it with them.

Refrigerators
Edited from Wikipedia
Before the invention of the refrigerator, icehouses were used to provide cool storage for most of the year. Placed near freshwater lakes or packed with snow and ice during the winter, they were once very common. In fact, using nature to cool food is still common today: on mountainsides, runoff from melting snow higher up is a convenient way to cool drinks, and during the winter months simply placing one’s milk outside one’s window is sufficient to greatly extend its useful life.
In the 11th century, the Persian physicist …

This was forwarded to me via email. Five stories from five different sources and I just want to share this so we start thinking about how we treat the last, the lost and the least among us.

Year 2008 was a blessed year for me. My professional life took a different turn when I became a consultant. It was a learning experience, but as with everything else in my life, things became so much better because I was willing to be stretched and I tried things I never tried before.

Announcement: angperegrino.com will be on vacation from Dec. 26-January 4, 2009 to celebrate the holidays.

Thanks so much for your support, and for reading this blog this past year. I hope you’ll get even more hooked in 2009

Happy New Year everyone and continue enjoying the holidays!

I wrote this years ago and entered it in a contest where I won the third prize (yey!). This is my memory of my mom when I was growing up. Happy Christmas everyone!