the power of flying high above peoples bs is unmatched. coming down to their level always feels petty. people should be rewarded for choosing the right path for sure. i just know others deserve to jump my queue in line and thats all gravy. carry on bro.
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Sometimes I do good things, too.
We had a guy who worked as a trimmer on a grow I worked on a few years back. He had his issues, as well all do, but was the most genuine, authentic and kind person I ever met. Just was struggling, homelessness, addiction, bad relationship, no transportation, so on. Smoked about an oz of dabs a week. No joke.
We saved every cent he spent on those dabs for months and at the end of the season dropped it on a nearby apartment for him…his first on his own ever. He got California sober so to say, and worked his ass off the next season, too.
Then he ended up heading back out to LA, relapsed, was homeless, after spending a few weeks having daily video chats with him, late into the morning hours trying to help him get sober, I got frustrated because he wasn’t taking it seriously. So I ignored his calls for a week or so, then found out he jumped on front of moving car and ended it recently.
I don’t really know why I just dumped that but whatever. Keep doing good stuff.
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@Rippleseeds, sometimes because of a person’s karma he/she is unable to receive help. We still have to try…hope he’s in a better place.
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i saw some pretty heavy dudes succumb to it, pulled under the tide of hard drugs. i used to stare out at the pacific ocean and think for hours, and one day i thought about how the tide comes to shore. and how a rising tide is more powerful than anything in its wake. thats how i look at it now, cant save any one person, but we can apply pressure where it creates the most impact. and i can see youre of that frame of mind.
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This 
My absolute favorite org I ever volunteered at was dedicated to doing that for kids. Specifically aimed at helping them do better in school or stay in school when they were at a tipping point. They give out a few hundred to a few thousand dollars to schools each year, to be used by staff right in the moment they are needed, with zero red tape. The accountability is all after the fact - to get funded again the following year at the same or higher level they just had to submit a report of what they used the funds for.
Some of my favorite stories were a kid they paid for half her root canal - her family situation was bad, and things were hard, but she was doing good at school. Her grades started slipping and her teacher found out it was because she had a serious tooth problem and needed a root canal, and consequently not only was in pain but had gotten a job to save up and pay for it. She had saved up half, and they used the fund money to pay for the other half so she could get back on track.
Also all the shop & art class fees & ASB cards they paid for kids for whom those were the reason they wanted to come to school.
And of course the fancy track shoes for a poor kid so he could compete well - he went to college on a track scholarship he’d never have been able to get in ratty tennies.
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The kind of people who work at these programs are so valuable. To have good people who can direct resources and reach out to kids. Kids like me that were taken in by older people without good intentions struggle to think about how to reach out and help kids. And maybe we are breaking the cycle of exploiting them at the risk of creating a new cycle of abandoning them. Most men my age would make fun of a grown man spending time with kids, there’s so many disconnects like that now. In a big city it can really be that way, like who do you help when there are so many. And I seldom hear people talk about helping the kids in the less affluent areas, there’s an emphasis on building housing etc in areas that already have good schools and infrastructure instead. I really can’t imagine where we’d be without the selfless people who dedicate their entire lives to helping kids.
I went to high school with someone from hunters point in San Francisco, his life was exactly how you’d imagine Hollywood depicting it, not good. Sports took him and his family all the way to the top of the economic and cultural pyramid in America. Huge believer in sports, and that’s the only way I’ve actually felt comfortable myself in helping younger folks. Somehow it breaks down walls and just makes communicating and teaching life lessons so much simpler (maybe more so for men, idk).
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Yes. We’ve made it feel very risky on both sides for men to spend one-on-one time with kids. I’d love to have been protected from the things that happened to me, but at the same time children need that connection with adults. I’ve seen in person and read the studies that show how much difference a healthy connection with a caring adult makes to a child.
It seems to me that wherever our own enthusiasms are, that’s where it’s easiest to connect to young people. Of course I taught them to grow vegetables, not cannabis, but it’s pretty similar 
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Just found you on Instagram…love the Haze photos filling your tent…and that Wet Dream… NICE! Everything your doing looks great… keep it up!
This time of year I keep cheap gloves and beanies in the car. When see people panhandling, flying a sign whatever toss them some glove and hat. Been homeless and it’s the little things that most take for granted can really make your day and keep you healthy. Good work y’all we do good things cause that is how the world should be if people are gonna hate well then F’em cause they aren’t worth stressing over anyways.
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If we only knew our origins, who we really are.
We can never give up on each other, we must understand that addicts need rescuing, family should lead the way and get families members off of these horrendous drugs that steal their souls and joy of life. 
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Great idea keeping the homeless warm. Food and warmth and caring can save lives.
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I managed to get a bunch of stuff out today, hope you enjoy. If you sent me information and didn’t get anything, just hit me up sometimes I have a hard time digging through the inbox on here and also sometimes I’m just all over the place.
In the meantime, starting today through next Friday, I have a big list of options for some free seeds for anybody who takes some time to get involved with the Last Prisoner Project and let those who are inside the system know we’re out here and we haven’t forgotten them!
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I write my uncle and father weekly. Both pulling life but not for cannabis just being in the wrong place at the wrong time does that count lol?
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We live in a pretty poor part of the state. Lots of migrant workers and pretty rural. Half of the school leaves after harvest and then come back in the spring. My wife is a high school art teacher and I’m a janitor at the same school. We ended up making a program for kids to do art after school. Its way more than just that though. They almost think of us as parents, its a cool feeling. We even help kids make appointments or w.e., usually there’s a language barrier for a case like that. Anyway, we ended up buying everyone a blank white hoodie and had a pizza and tye dye party for them for Christmas. They were so happy and that makes us happy. Last year, we didn’t have as many kids in the program and bought them all blank white Nike sb shoes and we air brushed and drew on them. You wouldn’t believe how happy these kids are to receive something that most take for granted. These kids are awesome for the most part. Super appreciative and genuinely “get it” as they had to grow up fast for a kid. Most of these kids come from an unstable household for various reasons. Im literally crying typing this out.
Do me a favor, during Xmas give those you care about an extra hug or call to tell them you love them. A simple gesture can go so far for a person who you might never have even known is broken inside or going thru whatever.
Much love folks, stay lifted
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This tugs the ol heart strings! Real OG !
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Thanks, @Rippleseeds . Your generosity is something to see “in this modern world,” as the cynics refrain has gone for all too long. The addition of such great crosses to our little seed vault is as appreciated as the extras were unexpected. For those having trouble with the not-great photography up there, we were blessed with Blue Dream (SC Cut) X Old Soul, IBL Sour D (Stony’s Cut) X Piff Haze, Malawi Gold X Heirloom Afghani, Blueberry Band Aid Haze, and Plat City Soul (Plat City Runts X Old Soul).
Here’s hope for all the best for you and yours in the coming year.
Stay up
Coffin_Dodger
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My birthday today;)…
Spending it with y’all because I’m alone
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We’re with you
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Hey @Rippleseeds. This thread is a GREAT idea ! You have inspired me to spend all day long helping as much as I can. Sometimes we forget that the feeling of sacrifice and compassion that we get when we help others is the greatest gift that we could ever recieve. I dont want any seeds. You have given me the gift of JOY. Thank you 
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Happy birthday @percyryan66 !! I hope it’s a good one! And I hope you have some dank weed to smoke.
Something I always like to remember on my birthday as I get older:
Yes, you might be a year older on paper but you are only 1 day older than you were yesterday! 
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