It's been a tough week

Oh, hello!
First of all I want to share an article that I just read which was highlighted in Digging Thru the Dirt blog-

http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1905606,CST-EDT-edit26.article
It's titled : When Giving Thanks, Remember the Animals Check it out, I think it's very well written and I give 100 kudos to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Another awesome thing I've learned from Digging Thru The Dirt blog is that there's an animal sanctuary just over half hour away from my home! Yay! It's called Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary I emailed them yesterday to see about visiting hours since I haven't seen any of that sort of info on the website (it could be there, sure, but I don't see it. Do you? If so lemme know!). I am stoked- because I REALLY need to focus my energy into something productive.

...and that's because I am not handling well how so many people, even people I know well and who I KNOW are smart and compassionate, choose willful ignorance. IT. MAKES. ME. INSANE. It's stressing me out big time. That and I keep having flashbacks of images I've seen of the torturous conditions that are the norm on factory farms. So I am hoping that when I visit this place some sort of path will open up. I have never worked on a farm. The closest I ever even came to a farm was when I took horse riding lessons as a young girl. That and I lived right next to one in Burkittsville, MD for about a year (the corn was about 15' from our house, lol). So it might end up that it's just a great place to visit and to donate money to, and not volunteer at... but I am hoping I feel compelled to commit some time to volunteering. I worry- I am fantastic at starting things, and fall short oftentimes on seeing things thru. It's the Aries rising in me, I'm sure of it. :)