I love toys you never thought you “needed” until you actually owned them, like having heated seats in a car. The Apple iPad strikes me as being one of those toys. Do you ever wonder how different the world would be if, instead of buying expensive toys we don’t actually need, we invested the money for the benefit of the truly needy? Apple expects $4 billion in revenues from the iPad, but I wonder how many homes, schools and sewer systems $4 billion would build in, say, Haiti, Africa or New Orleans?
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Quotation from Mother Teresa
Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.
Quotation from Johnny Depp
