About last weekend.....

Well it happened. Oh boy it happened. So the weekend happened.

Yeah.

So more valuable than the return I earned was the experience and knowledge I gained. I know that now is definitely not the time for me to be running my own business. I’m better off working for other people, I think, at least until I have some more business experience under my belt.

But I can’t let the Virgin Lips Project die. Sobriety is too important a subject to me and this community for me to let it completely go. So I’m in the process of revamping it. Instead of focusing on making money, I want to focus on why I’m creating the Virgin Lips Project in the first place.

I’m creating Virgin Lips because of people that I know well and are dear to my heart and are having trouble kicking some nasty addictions. I want to create an alternative social scene that is interesting and stimulating without the hard controlled substances. I want people to stop focusing so much on themselves and to start giving to others. I want to do things like Angelina Jolie is doing: focusing on people that have a greater need than herself, serving them, raising awareness about them.

I admire her attention to world issues and her charity. She said that when she was fourteen and dropping acid, what she really needed at that time was to be dropped in the middle of Africa and be told to help people. It completely transformed her, and I admire that so much.

Please add the Virgin Lips Project as your friend on myspace. Friends and I will be thinking of ways and finding ways to serve our communities, and to raise money by having parties where mocktails will be served and money will be raised to donate those who are in greater need than us. I want to make it a point to teach people about the international humanitarian work force, and get more people out there. I want to make it a point to make service to my community, my living space, my neighbors, a sacred habit, a ritual, integrated into my life. I want to be able to effortlessly find ways to serve people the way Christ did.

When we are in the service of our fellow beings, we are in the service of our God. Charity never faileth.

So um … who’s with me?

BIG FREAKIN' DEAL

Come to studio 600 next weekend! As I will be there offering my services as a dry bartender to a large public audience for the first time, all night Thursday and Friday, with me coming in and out on Saturday night. Drinks will be around $3 a pop. Come, dance the night away, and enjoy some delicious drinks!

We're getting started guys, and it's so gosh dang exciting!!