Today marks 45 years since my mother passed away after a fight with liver cancer. I had just graduated from high school a few months earlier. I’m thankful for the time I had with her. I am also thankful that, if she had to go, it was through a process that gave us some time […]
Category: Philanthropy, donating, serving, volunteering
Non-profit organizations are present all over the country–even in Tooele County, Utah. I was surprised when I first learned that IRS has on file about 140 tax-exempt organizations that have a main contact address in Tooele County. Of course, that list doesn’t even include nationwide organizations that have a unit in Tooele County. These Tooele […]
Before I registered Lightward Bound as an official organization, I spent some time researching various United States organizations that already exist, to learn if any were already doing what this organization will be doing. I didn’t find many organizations that were even close to carrying out the mission that Lightward Bound has. What I did […]
Quite often, I hear people say that things need to change. Sometimes they are talking about racism; other times it’s about poverty. And other people refer to a moral decline or things not being the “way it ought to be.” Most all of us can see things that we wish or hope would change. Sometimes […]