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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?)

Posted Monday, December 11th, 2006 at 1:00 am under adverlitas. Feel free to trackback from your own site. All images on newyorkette.com are the intellectual property of Carolita Johnson, and you must ask (and receive) express permission to use them or reproduce them in any way whatsoever.