|Pat Wright

projectnicaragua:

When I was kid, my parents always new just how to break bad news, with a nice dollop of good news on top. Your getting a bigger room… because we’re moving. Your getting a new dog… because your old one has to go on a long trip. Manipulative, a little, but it worked like a charm! Though I did wonder for the longest just when Jack was coming back from that long trip.
Well, Mark and I have some good news. We have a full stock of mens and womens/youth Fight For Enough shirts available! And may we say, these are some great shirts! A few have asked just what fight for enough means; here’s the concept, if everyone had the mindset of making sure that everyone else had at least enough, this world would be a better place. We aren’t talking trickle effect or spread-the-bread, just the concept that if people care for one another, everyone will be cared for. It’s pretty simple really. So, pop over to the store and order your FFE shirt and then the next fashion forward event you attend, you will have a great talking point for that philanthropic guy/girl you’ve had your eye on! And you’ll provide a family with forty meals, win-win-quadrupledecuple win.
Because we’re almost out of Project Nicaragua shirts (see how I threw that in there, I get it from my momma). If you’ve been online to purchase lately, you may have noticed the size options are pretty limited, and, well, that because we are down to the last few shirts! This is a great problem to have for a number of reasons. First, it means we have provided over 4,300 MEALS! Second, it means people all over the country have joined in this humble mission and are sparing a nice meal out so a family can have some regular meals in. This has been quite the humbling experience for Mark and I, and it makes us all the more eager to launch One Thread and provide fashionable clothing with a missions centered focus.
Like we said in the beginning, we’re just two guys. We’ve needed and still very much need all your wonderful support. And don’t worry, the Project Nicaragua shirts will be available in the coming future, but right now we really want to make this initial drop a special one, so every penny is gonna go straight into packets and not restocking. But hey, if any of you guys are sitting on a goose egg and wanna help us make an omelet, email us!
SO go buy, go give, go tell a friend! But most importantly, go love someone else, it makes the world go round. Thanks for joining the fight for enough.
Patrick

When I was kid, my parents always new just how to break bad news, with a nice dollop of good news on top. Your getting a bigger room… because we’re moving. Your getting a new dog… because your old one has to go on a long trip. Manipulative, a little, but it worked like a charm! Though I did wonder for the longest just when Jack was coming back from that long trip.

Well, Mark and I have some good news. We have a full stock of mens and womens/youth Fight For Enough shirts available! And may we say, these are some great shirts! A few have asked just what fight for enough means; here’s the concept, if everyone had the mindset of making sure that everyone else had at least enough, this world would be a better place. We aren’t talking trickle effect or spread-the-bread, just the concept that if people care for one another, everyone will be cared for. It’s pretty simple really. So, pop over to the store and order your FFE shirt and then the next fashion forward event you attend, you will have a great talking point for that philanthropic guy/girl you’ve had your eye on! And you’ll provide a family with forty meals, win-win-quadrupledecuple win.

Because we’re almost out of Project Nicaragua shirts (see how I threw that in there, I get it from my momma). If you’ve been online to purchase lately, you may have noticed the size options are pretty limited, and, well, that because we are down to the last few shirts! This is a great problem to have for a number of reasons. First, it means we have provided over 4,300 MEALS! Second, it means people all over the country have joined in this humble mission and are sparing a nice meal out so a family can have some regular meals in. This has been quite the humbling experience for Mark and I, and it makes us all the more eager to launch One Thread and provide fashionable clothing with a missions centered focus.

Like we said in the beginning, we’re just two guys. We’ve needed and still very much need all your wonderful support. And don’t worry, the Project Nicaragua shirts will be available in the coming future, but right now we really want to make this initial drop a special one, so every penny is gonna go straight into packets and not restocking. But hey, if any of you guys are sitting on a goose egg and wanna help us make an omelet, email us!

SO go buy, go give, go tell a friend! But most importantly, go love someone else, it makes the world go round. Thanks for joining the fight for enough.

Patrick

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Best For Last/Adele

Do yourself a favor and press repeat.

Man, it’s 4am and I cant sleep. My dreams have take over my brain and inspiration is pulsing. If only I could figure out how to bottle this feeling, I’d be unstoppable. There’s so much to be done in this world, I want to do it all, but i can’t. That’s a realization that becomes an ever present reality daily. MLKJ once said that if a man hasn’t found something he is willing to die for, he isn’t fit to live. Harsh words but I agree. It weathers my soul the amount people living for nothing, or worse yet, living for pitter patter that won’t amount to anything in the end.

I watched Revolutionary Road again tonight and ripped me apart just like it did the first time. Such deep sadness sinking in the deep black waters of steady shifting depravity. Nights like tonight, when the darkness of night seems close enough to whisper your secrets and light of the stars are bright enough to give you hope for morning, these are the nights I think about things like who I am, what I believe, where I am going. I’m convinced these are increasingly becoming antiquated questions in our society.

I want to be a good man, better than I was yesterday, nobler than I was this morning. I want to be like those men gone past who spoke truth straight to your face, take it or leave it. I want to be strong and humble, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. I want to have something to say, something actually worth listening to. I want to be steadfast, loyal, dependable. I want to wear my hate on the soles of my feet and my love in the palms of my fist, so I can walk out all the things that divide us and never be quick to strike a blow.

Ill get where Im going by faith. I’ve learned that life has little to do with how you feel about something. I’ve always wanted to fly, quite badly actually, and yet as much as I’ve wished and waited and believed, I can’t break this earth. I believe in the scriptures not because they make me feel good, or because some say I should; I believe because there’s something about truth you can’t escape. As Kate Winslet’s caracter puts it, the great thing about truth is everyone knows what it is however long they’ve lived without it. No one forgets the truth, they just get better at lying.

Everyone has a dream, you must protect it at all costs. The winds of fear, failure, and mediocrity are constantly seeking to snuff it out. Feed your fire, simplify your life and free yourself to make it happen. Forget all the things your “supposed” to have, remind yourself daily of all the things you used to- wonder, imagination, creativity. Never ever take yourself for granted, you were created how you were to be who you are, for right here and right now. Find something worth dying for… then die for it.

I think I’d die for a lot of things, mostly anyone, definitely Jesus. Guess I gotta keep living to find out. Thanks for letting a brotha ramble.