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September 30th, 2016

9/30/2016

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The American eagle needs its right and left wings to fly but its heart is in the middle (more-or-less).

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September 27th, 2016

9/27/2016

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                                      "Father Time is the mother of all action figures."
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September 26th, 2016

9/26/2016

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"The U.S. incarceration rate in the U.S. is the highest in the world, with over 2.4 million people currently behind bars."  - American Friends Service Committee

"According to the U.S. Bureau of Statistics (BJS), 2,220,300 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013 -- about 0.91% of adults (1 in 110) in the U.S. resident population.  Additionally, 4,751,400 adults in 2013 (1 in 51) were on probation or on parole."  - Wikipedia

The American inmate population is disproportionately nonwhite...


Please give to St. Jude's Hospital, Danny Thomas Place/ Memphis, Tennessee  38105/ 800-822-6344
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September 24th, 2016

9/24/2016

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Please give to the Diabetes, Nutrition and Endocrine Center/ 905 Union Street #11/ Bangor, Maine, 04401/ 207-973-7334
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September 22nd, 2016

9/22/2016

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"1 in 8 Americans face hunger."  - U.S. Hunger Relief Charity

"1 in 6 people in America face hunger."
"In 2011, households with children reported a significantly higher food insecurity than households without children: 20.6% vs. 12.2%"  - DoSomething.org

"In 2014, there were 46.7 million people in poverty" in the U.S.  - worldhunger.org/ Hunger Notes

"The 2014 poverty rate for Blacks was 26.2 percent, for Hispanics 23.6 percent, for Asians 12 percent, for non-Hispanic whites 10.1 percent."  "(The poverty rate was at 22.4 percent in 1959, the first year for poverty estimates.)"  - Devavas-Walt 2015/ worldhunger.org/ Hunger Notes

9/24: The U.S. poverty rate was 13.5% in 2015. - U.S. Census Bureau/ census.gov

added 10/23: Please see Carbuncle Moon post 5/14/16; Four banks control...



Please give to Feeding America: 35 East Whacker Drive, Suite 2000/ Chicago, Illinois, 60601/ 800-771-2303
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September 20th, 2016

9/20/2016

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"Fate can be like an alimony check that never comes no matter how much you need the cash."


Please support the National Education Association/ 1201 16th Street NW/ Washington DC, 20036/ 202-833-4000
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September 18th, 2016

9/18/2016

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                                            Yes he was...


Please give to Make-A-Wish Foundation/ 4742 North 24th Street, Suite 400/ Phoenix, Arizona, 85016/ 800-7229497
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September 16th, 2016

9/16/2016

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                         "One woman's objet defectueux is another woman's objet d'art."
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September 15th, 2016

9/15/2016

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                      It began as a disagreement at a book club meeting in Bangor, Maine.



Sometimes you can’t repay people for an act of kindness, sacrifice, loyalty, courage, or charity, but you can try -- 
Sometimes life is in the effort.  (A version of this was posted earlier).          

  

Please give to the Wounded Warrior Project/ P.O. Box 758517/ Topeka, Kansas/ 855-448-3997
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September 14th, 2016

9/14/2016

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"I keep my husband's ashes in coffee cans in the trunk of the car.  When I'm up at Tahoe and it's icy -- and I'm slippin or stuck on 89 -- I sprinkle some of his ashes under the back tires.  Works good, like road sand -- the big chunks.  Ha ha.  Claus works harder dead than he did alive." 


add: 9/17: Happy Eid al-Adha (September 11 to September 15)  See blog for September 19th, 2015.
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    A carbuncle is a roiled mass of skin or a beautiful gem.  The incredible gem is pictured in the logo below and at the bottom of the short story section...

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    Kevin O'Kendley is the owner of Carbuncle Moon, and the author of all original material -- cartoons, blogs, shorts, essays, articles -- on the website (there has been a very limited editorial input in some of my work).  All quoted sources are noted.  I am responsible for all posts.  The only blogs not time-dated are those advertising nonprofits.  All nonprofits are vetted, investigated, though after the summer of 2018 my vetting has lapsed: (6/1/21).  

    ​Kevin O'Kendley: P.O. Box 172, Winterport, Maine, 04496, and 200 P Street, A-32, Sacramento, California, 95814, [email protected].  


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    Photography provided by a visual artist, my daughter, Caitlin O'Kendley: a young woman with a beautiful soul.  (Caitlin is in college now, a media-journalism student)

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