#FeedTheHungryFriday

There is a great way to help feed the hungry in your local community. Most likely you have heard of it. Food pantries. They are a rather new entry to the fight against hunger. The world's first food pantry wasn't even established until 1967 in Arizona. Since then they have spread across America and Canada and then hopped over the pond to spread in Europe. John van Hengel was serving in a soup kitchen when he got the idea to gather and distribute non-perishable food items for those who were hungry. Here's some facts about food pantries/banks that are really interesting.

So for #FeedTheHungryFriday I'm suggesting you find a local food bank and ask what their needs are and help stock their shelves. Many food pantries can be found by clicking here.

Or maybe you feel a greater pull to get involved in the hunger issue and have thought about starting your own food bank. Here's some advice on how to start one and keep it going.

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Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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