http://www.leafshadows.com Blogathon 2007 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:40:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Blogging every thirty minutes for 24 hours straight in Blogathon 2007 equals $585.84 raised for Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary!!! Yay to my 23 sponsors! And Yay to the people who supported me in the comments! There is still a little time before the sponsorships officially close. But I was so excited about who ... http://www.leafshadows.com/2007/0731_grand-total/ A "happily ever after" is what I wish for all animals. You can help!  By going vegan! A great big Thank You to my sponsors!  You'll be getting a email from Blogathon in a couple days reminding you to go donate.  And once the sponsorships close, we can see who wins teeshirts/tote ... http://www.leafshadows.com/2007/0729_49-a-happy-ending/ Just a little 5:30am reminder: Peaceful Prairie is the coolest! Certainly you would like to Sponsor Me! This you can do until Tuesday. online pharmacycialislevitrasomaviagra http://www.leafshadows.com/2007/0729_48/ Yeah, it's getting tougher. I'm sure there are plenty of things to type about. I just ... well, I was going to say I just don't care any more. But that's not it. It's more like my brain wants to simplify everything down: Dog fighting: bad. That guy ... http://www.leafshadows.com/2007/0729_47/   Tough to take a pic that doesn't make me look horribly hideous!  ha.  Me, wrapped up in my blanket with the little fan in the window behind me. And sunrise doesn't occur until... 5:57am. And I seriously need to reboot.  I'm amazed at how well my computer has held up. 'course I ... http://www.leafshadows.com/2007/0729_46-me-towards-the-end/ ... SO says "Think globally act locally. Be the good example." :) I say. Why isn't everybody vegan yet? http://www.leafshadows.com/2007/0729_45-um/ I would like to take this 30 minutes to remember Virgil Butler. He was The Cyberactivist, the guy who worked as a killer in a chicken slaughter house. and then turned it all around, went vegan and became an animal activist and rescued chickens (and dogs and cats...). He died ... http://www.leafshadows.com/2007/0729_44-in-memory-of/ People think that being vegan is "extreme". When I was vegetarian, I used to think that. Now that I am vegan, it's the other way around. I see the extreme suffering caused by meat eaters. I see the astronomical numbers of animals killed every year. ... http://www.leafshadows.com/2007/0729_43-extreme/ I am usually go for science fiction when reading novels, but there's also a fantasy sub-genre that I love called Animal Fiction. This is where the animals tell the story. Watership Down. Wind in the Williows. One book from this genre definitely fits into my vegan theme. ... http://www.leafshadows.com/2007/0729_42-and-fiction/ So, that's my list of books in the Animal, non fiction section. Okay, lets see. _Kinship With All Life_ is a tiny book by J. Allen Boone about a guy who takes the time to talk to animals. Brilliant! _Living on the Edge_ is by Jeff Corwin, and I've blogged about him and ... http://www.leafshadows.com/2007/0729_41-2am-books/