Terri Preeg Riggsby - West Multnomah SWCD Director

Looking for a community garden plot in the south metro area? Bethlehem House of Bread has a great deal $40 covers a plot for the year and the use of tools, wheelbarrows, and seeds and starts!!

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thanks Nickole Cheron for this :)

You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere. Why did you spill the coffee?

"Because someone bumped into me!!!"

Wrong answer.

You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea. Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.

Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It's easy to fake it, until you get rattled.

So we have to ask ourselves... “what's in my cup?"

When life gets tough, what spills over? Joy, gratitude, peace and humility?

Anger, bitterness, victim mentality and quitting-tendencies?
Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.

Today let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, resilience, positivity; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.
- Author unknown

Over 1,000 shootings in Portland in 1 year alone.
We can do better, and we must do better.
We deserve better.

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