Kelly Diehls, by way of a FB post by Danielle LaPOrte of White Hot Truth, has written a very powerful blog and come up with an awesome idea for helping Haiti.

Kelly opens her post with something I learned while studying about theater:

I think complaining and venting can be enervating.  You’ve got this uncomfortably hot issue simmering and boiling and producing steam…and then you vent.  All that energy dissipates into the atmosphere.  you’re comfortable again.  And so you carry on.

And nothing changes.

So complaining – letting off steam – is an escape valve, and the escape is inertia.  Complacency.  A democracy of noisy theory and a prison of inaction.

Well, wow.  Anyone who can put that last sentence together has my complete attention.  And so you can click here to read the whole thing so that you understand the following offer.

The person who buys my beadwork swarovski crystal necklace for $145 will get a gorgeous necklace (to go with all the purples in style today) and also know that the entire cost will be donated to Doctors Without Borders for their work in Haiti.

See the necklace here (because I cannot get photos into my blog right now, but have used that necklace when I could still do that).

I have chosen Doctors Without Borders because

 I know of their work in Zambia, and have supported it.  It is an amazing organization and one I absolutely trust.

I would put my Help Haiti Blog Challenge button here, but buttons, widgets, photos – nothing is working at the moment, so you’ll have to get your button from Kelly when you join this action.  Win-Win.  Win some more.

Here are all the “rules:”

Thanks Kelly!

Wise Women’s Wisdom:  It doesn’t interest me who you are, or how you came to be here.  I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.  Oriah Mountain Dreamer