How exciting it was a couple of weeks ago to honor the 83rd. birthday of our dear friend Dr. Werner Langer.  We gave him the gift of a goat! The goat does not go directly to him but to a family in need in another country. It was really quite simple to do this. We had found a great website Heifer International. From there we clicked on "GIVE" and selected our living gift that would be given in Dr. Werner's name. We chose a goat, but you can also select flocks of chicks, geese, ducks, lambs, goats, bees, cows etc.

If you are looking for a gift to give some who has everything...then this is the site to go to. The gift keeps on giving making a huge impact on providing food and income to a family.

An example: In Tanzania, Omari and Kulwa were struggling to raise a family on just 50 cents a day. With the training and a flock of chicks they received from Heifer, egg sales have boosted their daily income to $2. so now they can buy food and still pay school fees. Now, through passing on the gift, (they share some of the offspring of the chickens) all of the children in their village are going to school. 

Please take a few minutes to check out this organization's web site....it is truly amazing all that they are doing around the world! 

Please join us in posting "Good News" to this site and shaing the website with others.

Have a great day,

Sheri Sharman 

Greetings,

I just wanted to share with all of you an update on Sasha Blair's goodwill in Thailand. Some of you may be following my blogs on the orphans in Thailand and what Sasha and others from the Toys for Thailand Foundation are accomplishing. See my December 29th blog.

My mother, Imo and I are close friends with Sasha and have made it one of our goals this tear to continue our support in helping create a safe and clean environment for theses orphans. The pictures show the kids repainting the boys dorm and getting ready for their new beds. Sasha and the team provided a very rare treat, Pizza for the children who helped with the clean up and painting. Through generous donations Toys for Thailand was able to purchase 100 new beds and have a new bathroom constructed.

The Wat Don Chan orphanage currently is the home to over 650 children. Sasha says another 100 are expected this year. Please watch this short video Click Here and see how an idea and actions of just a few people have changed so many lives. My mom and I invite you to join us in helping make a better life for these children.


Sasha will return any day now to San Diego her home. She has been in Thailand since Dec. 14th overseeing the project. Last week when I emailed her to see what was on her wish list for 2009 she replied with the wish of another 100 beds. The cost of a bed for a child is just $35.00 a very small portion of what a bed would cost here in the United States. If you would like to contribute Click Here www.toysforthailand.org.


Sheri

Check out this video with the same name in my video section. After you watch it...ask yourself the same question. Pretty interesting.

Have a great day,

Sheri

 Greetings! 

I love the Ocean! I grew up and still live in Carlsbad, CA. which is located right on the ocean. Growing up as a small girl the ocean and it's beaches were my playground. Even today as I write this blog...I have just returned from playing at the beach with my 1 year old Grandson, Merric. I have always been concerned about our environment and the health and well being of all the creatures in the sea and the water itself.

 I am very please to support the Ocean Futures Society. I urge you to tour their website and find out more and you too can help support this amazing miracle.....the ocean.

For over 60 years, Jean-Michel Cousteau, his father and family have been part of the greatest exploration of the ocean in all of history. Jean-Michel's father, Jacques Cousteau, said, "People protect what they love." Realizing that "We can't protect what we don't yet understand," Jean-Michel Cousteau has dedicated Ocean Futures Society to advancing his family's legacy for a world increasingly in need of information and inspiration.

We do know that the health of the oceans is declining due to human impact. The planet is sick and its temperature is rising. WE need everyone to do what ever they can to make sure our ocean's have a healthy future and will be a part of our legacy to our family for generations to come.

Here are the Ocean Futures priorities.....please take time to view their website and perhaps make them part of your priorities too.

Luvnlife,

Sheri Sharman

Ocean Futures Society

www.oceanfutures.org

• Clean Water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.
• Coastal Marine Habitats, coral reefs, estuaries and wetlands, must receive protection in order to assure the ocean's quality of life and thus our own.
• Marine Mammals, our biological counterparts in the sea, must be protected from human impact.
• Sustainable Fisheries must be created to reflect our ability to manage natural resources wisely.

 I recently was sent this message and I wanted to pass it on to all of you.

Enjoy,

Sheri

REFLECTIONS 

 In November of 2007 I was introduced to a great organization called Kiva. Kiva lenables a person to lend money to a specific entrepreneur of your choice in a developing world.

Your loan of $25.00 will help empower them to lift themselves out of poverty. As your loans are paid back you can redistribute the money to others in need of a loan.

It has been very rewarding as an entrepreneur myself who was once empowered to make a better life for me and my small son to now be able to help others in so many ways and Kiva being one of them. 

I encourage you all to take a closer look at this wonderful opportunity to help others.

Click Here to learn more 

Click Here for my blog

Luvnlife,

Sheri Sharman

A story from Jeff that I would like to share:

  Jeff & Freedom!

When Freedom came in she could not stand.  Both wings were broken, her left wing in 4 places. She was emaciated and covered in lice. We made the decision to give her a chance at life, so I took her to the vet's office.  From then on, I was always around her. We had her in a huge dog carrier with the top off, and it was loaded up with shredded newspaper for her to lie in. I used to sit and talk to her, urging her to live, to fight; and she would lay there looking at me with those big brown eyes. We also had to tube feed her for weeks.

This went on for 4-6 weeks, and by then she still couldn't stand. It got to the point where the decision was made to euthanize her if she couldn't stand in a week. You know you don't want to cross that line between torture and rehab, and it looked like death was winning. She was going to be put down that Friday, and I was supposed to come in on that Thursday afternoon. I didn't want to go to the center that Thursday, because I couldn't bear the thought of her being euthanized; but I went anyway, and when I walked in everyone was grinning from ear to ear. I went immediately back to her dowl cage; and there she was, standing on her own, a big beautiful eagle.  She was ready to live. I was just about in tears by then. That was a very good day.

We knew she could never fly, so the director asked me to glove train her. I got her used to the glove, and then to jesses, and we started doing education programs for schools in western Washington. We wound up in the newspapers, radio (believe it or not) and some TV.  Miracle Pets even did a show about us.

In the spring of 2000, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. I had stage 3, which is not good (one major organ plus everywhere), so I wound up doing 8 months of chemo. Lost the hair - the whole bit. I missed a lot of work.  When I felt good enough, I would go to Sarvey and take Freedom out for walks. Freedom would also come to me in my dreams and help me fight the cancer.  This happened time and time again.

Fast forward to November 2000, the day after Thanksgiving, I went in for my last checkup. I was told that if the cancer was not all gone after 8 rounds of chemo, then my last option was a stem cell transplant.  Anyway, they did the tests; and I had to come back Monday for the results. I went in Monday, and I was told that all the cancer was gone.  Yahoo!

So the first thing I did was get up to Sarvey and take the big girl out for a walk. It was misty and cold. I went to her flight and jessed her up, and we went out front to the top of the hill. I hadn't said a word to Freedom, but somehow she knew. She looked at me and wrapped both her wings around me to where I could feel them pressing in on my back (I was engulfed in eagle wings), and she touched my nose with her beak and stared into my eyes, and we just stood there like that for I don't know how long. That was a magic moment. We have been soul mates ever since she came in. This is a very special bird.

On a side note:  I have had people who were sick come up to us when we are out, and Freedom has some kind of hold on them. I once had a guy who was terminal come up to us and I let him hold her. His knees just about buckled and he swore he could feel her power coarse through his body. I have so many stories like that.

I never forget the honor I have of being so close to such a magnificent spirit as Freedom's.

Hope you enjoy this.

Jeff

Jeff Guidry and Freedom are at Sarvey Wildlife Center:

http://www.sarveywildlife.org/

"jeff" <jeff@sarveywildlife.org>

eaglewalker@comcast.net

I hope this story touched you as it did me!

Loving Life, Sheri Sharman

Be sure to watch this video from Infact Swimming Resource on special training that helps a small child survive if they fall into a swimming pool or water.  Click here to watch Child Drowning Prevention.

Please send link to ANYONE who has babies that have access to a swimming pool, pond, etc...ASAP.

Loving Life,

Sheri Sharman

Are you in training to reach your goals? If you didn't catch the Budweiser Rocky Ad that played during the super bowl, click the link below:

Budweiser Rocky Ad

Loving Life,

Sheri Sharman

Be sure to check out the video I just posted in the Video Gallery.  The video is about Farrah Gray who started his entrepreneurial career at age 6 and became a millionaire at age 14!

Loving Life,

Sheri Sharman