look to your own ‘backyard’, or whathaveyou
Better do a good deed near at home,
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart (24 July 1897 – missing 2 July 1937, declared dead 5 January 1939), American aviation pioneer and author
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for those with a limited view « à bout de souffle said this on Thursday, 16 April 2009 at 8.17 AM
this is true, I seldom get confused why a lot of peopel go from far away lands to help poverty when there are still homeless people in theirs.
It also confuses me as to how a lot of people can travel far away places and cities and come back with all this knowledge about the place they’ve been, but when you quiz them about their hometown, they won’t survive if their life depended on it.
ashmantravels said this on Thursday, 16 April 2009 at 9.00 AM