The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mar
10
Mar
03
It’s Getting Busy!
Things are about to get really busy in the PV World and we hope you join us in the journey, whether in person or by following along on the website:
In 1 Week – 15 Northern Illinois University students will be arriving in Wyoming County, West Virginia for a week of service. This is NIU’s 19 consecutive spring break with us! (March 11th -18th)
In 3 Weeks – PVs will be in Bradley Beach, NJ for a reunion 
weekend. (See previous email/post for details) If you plan on joining us, please let us know as soon as you can so we can make arrangements. We hope to have a big turnout for this PV Reunion. I mean really, what is more fun than hanging out with your PV family??? (March 25th)
weekend. (See previous email/post for details) If you plan on joining us, please let us know as soon as you can so we can make arrangements. We hope to have a big turnout for this PV Reunion. I mean really, what is more fun than hanging out with your PV family??? (March 25th)
In 7 Weeks – The PVs will be in Seattle for a week, performing service throughout the city. There are many local PVs that will be taking part and it is not too late to join them! If you plan on coming, let us know soon! (April 23rd-29th)
And a little further off, in 16 Weeks the PV Summer Program in West Virginia begins… more on that one later
Mar
03
Friday Food For Thought- March 3rd
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
From “The Lorax”
In honor of Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Suess) birthday yesterday
Feb
28
Friday Food For Thought – Feb. 24th
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
Herman Melville
#FFFT
*This was originally suppose to post on Friday, but for technical issues did not post. Better late than never, right?
Feb
17
Friday Food For Thought – February 17, 2017
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.
Robert F. Kennedy
Feb
10
Food For Thought – February 10th
It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Wendell Berry
Feb
03
Friday Food For Thought – February 3rd
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
Jan
27
Friday Food For Thought – Jan. 27th
I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.
Whitney M. Young
Jan
20
Friday Food For Thought
Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan
13
Friday Food For Thought
