{"id":1673,"date":"2006-10-12T02:16:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T09:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/10\/12\/its-not-too-late\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:35","slug":"its-not-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/10\/12\/its-not-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Too Late!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in the Bay Area and want something to do this weekend, you can easily sign up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handsonbayarea.org\/specialevents\/viewSpecialEvent.php?_mode=eventDetail&#038;_action=eventDetail&#038;ixSpecialEvent=688\">volunteer with Hands On Bay Area Day on Saturday<\/a>. It&#8217;s a fun event. We have 1800 people registered and room for 200 more. <\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t attend a project, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.active.com\/donate\/hobaday06\/mindfulone\">sponsor me and make a donation<\/a>. I am just $65 shy of my $500 goal. <em>Please consider giving.<\/em> It&#8217;s easy! You may make an online donation with a credit card, or email me to get an address to send a check (kathryn at pobox dot com). Your donation may be anonymous if you wish. I know an average of 70 people visit this blog daily, and many are regular readers. I would be so grateful if you would &#8220;pay it forward&#8221; with a small donation to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.active.com\/donate\/hobaday06\/mindfulone\">to Hands On Bay Area<\/a>. This is our biggest fundraising event of the year, and we are $13,000 short of our goal.<\/p>\n<p>Your donation can make a difference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>  $20 &#8212; 175 low-income youth would have help with their homework<\/li>\n<li>$50 &#8212; 460 children and adults with special needs would learn a new skill<\/li>\n<li>$100 &#8212; 600 lonely seniors would have someone other than their doctor to visit them<\/li>\n<li> $1,000 &#8212; 25,000 homeless families could sit down to a warm dinner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any amount can be donated (as little as one dollar). Come on, do it for me? Pretty please?<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/267650664\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/91\/267650664_b3d11bc174.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"americorps hard at work!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>My AmeriCorps comrades and I worked hard on a Petaluma farm in June 2006. From left to right: Michael Cook, Ambrosia Studley, me, Rachel Stegemoeller, and Joshua Faller. We live to serve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in the Bay Area and want something to do this weekend, you can easily sign up to volunteer with Hands On Bay Area Day on Saturday. It&#8217;s a fun event. We have 1800 people registered and room for 200 more. If you can&#8217;t attend a project, please sponsor me and make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12232,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/12232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}