Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

I know in the olden days they would chop off people's hands for stealing.  But this sign in a modern day store in America seemed jus...

Do we see and hear when people are hurting? Do we pay attention or look away? Do we even care? Do we do anything about it? As quee...

Continued to be appalled at the unlivable "living conditions" of the homeless in the Capital.  Makeshift tents line up and dow...

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I really had to take a second look at this.  From a distance, it looked like another homeless person sleeping on the bench in Washington...

So lots of people like to drink tea.  But the other day, a nice person was telling me how they drink tea all the time.  It's not jus...

I love this organization, Think Dignity . They do hands-on advocacy and activism to help the homeless.  From providing them storage lo...

A lady dropped these placards around on the Metro yesterday with a little pack of tissues.  It says: "Hi, I have 2 kids and I'...

I took this photo in Washington, DC. Two statues of back-to-back homeless people in the grit on the sidewalk. They sit as everyone rus...

My daughter went to a cool work seminar yesterday on emotional intelligence and she told me five important takeaways for creating EI healt...

Beautiful simple birdhouses in Downtown DC. We all need to live somewhere. Too many people in shelters and on the streets.  Started ...

No offense intended, but not going to miss this lady in a crowd. Orange-hot pink hair, a zebra shirt, big black-rimmed glasses, and a...

I suppose the makers of the Powerball lottery never envisioned a $1.3 billion jackpot.  As you can see the sign only goes up to $999 mil...

Some people just don't know when to turn down the volume or shut it off, altogether.  Perhaps they don't have enough to do, ...

So I had a great new pair of sandals that I wore just 3-4 times, but they didn't fit right on me. We wanted to give them to a poo...

The homeless situation in Washington D.C. (as in other big cities in the U.S.) is horrible and tragic.  The homeless person here is w...

Some people are so needy--they are almost like children in adult's clothing, while others are so distant they may as well be living ...

For July 4th, we headed down to the D.C. Folk Life Festival today on the Washington Mall. The Peace Corps had a number of exhibits at th...