
Click on the goat for the full sized version. (image: carolita.org)
In case anyone’s curious, the little goat in my sidebar is a special “adverlita.” Every year, sometime during the countdown to Christmas I receive a catalogue from Heifer International, with a photograph of Walter Cronkite cuddling a duckling on the cover, proposing that I buy a cow or a goat or a flock of geese (or a share thereof) for a family or village somewhere less prosperous than where I live.
Part of my “adverlita” philosophy is to help friends, and another part is to simply promote things I think are good. I love goats. They always look like they’re laughing. I think goats are good. And I think Heifer International is a good thing, too. You can buy a share of a goat for only $10 in your own name or in the name of a friend or colleagues, or a whole goat for $120. Which is cheaper than your girlfriend or boyfriend’s present (if you’re a half-decent boy/girlfriend, that is).
Buy a goat, or share of a goat (I did!) : here.
For whole (or shares of) heifers, llamas, sheep, geese, ducks, water buffalos, wabbits, and even trees, etc.: see the full catalogue here.
** If you buy a whole goat in my name, I’ll give you the original drawing of my “get someone’s goat,” brush and india ink on acid-free paper, irregularly sized but frame-able. You just have to make sure I receive the confirmation email card they provide you with. If you buy any other animals, I’ll give you a drawing of that animal (more are coming, anyway, to keep the sidebar hopping—including the “trio of rabbits.”).
Heifer International: here.
NB: the change from “Christmas” to “Holiday” was effected in order to encompass whatever other holidays are happening at this time— I am possessed of equal measures of personal indifference and respect regarding all religions, and was only trying to be polite. (Hear that, pro X-mas warriors? Ever hear of being polite?)