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Danielle LaPorte founded whitehottruth.com because “self realization rocks.” Her blog is lauded as “kick-ass enlightening.” I love it, and check it every day. She is the lead author of the book Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design, a book I highly recommend (lots of fun and enlightening ‘homework’ to do in it!). A former think tank executive and communications strategist, Danielle helps entrepreneurs blaze their careers with her signature Fire Starter Sessions.

Culture Lust is a blog about the latest ideas stirring in the creative world, hosted by Angela Carone. As arts and culture producer for KPBS Radio's These Days, she's constantly reading, watching, hearing and evaluating the books, movies, music, articles, performers, plays, and cultural phenomenon that cross her desk.

A Reason To Survive (ARTS) is built on the foundation that the arts heal, inspire and empower. It is through the arts that we help children facing life challenges.

ARTS believes that the creative process of the arts is therapeutic, but we're not art therapists. We provide a safe, nurturing and fun environment where kids work with positive adult mentors in visual, performing and literary art mediums.

Artists, musicians, poets and more, teach kids techniques and concepts so they can explore their creativity, express themselves and create something of themselves.

ARTS provides opportunities for kids to participate and experience the arts in order to...

I spent a year as a volunteer here, working every Saturday with kids at the San Diego Center for Children (until I had children myself, and therefore not a lot of spare time), and it is a fantastic organization. Both ARTS and the SDCC are most worthy places to put your money (aside from buying art, of course...), should you be looking for deserving charitable organizations to support! Hopefully as my own kids get a little older, I will once again find time to work with these kids again.

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A friend and neighbor of ours, Ed Lewis, has a web site/blog that he's put together with his friend David Gray called The Leucadia Project that is really cool and that you might really enjoy. Leucadia is the neighborhood we live in, and it’s right on the coast in northern Encinitas, a funky little beach town with a lot - a LOT - of surfers. And artists. And kids. There's a surf/art/photography bent to the site - some really gorgeous photography. They’ve been kind enough to give my art a couple of mentions on the site, which I of course very much appreciate. They also have an ongoing 'fin art' project that's very fun - readers of all ages and abilities invited to do an art project in the shape of a surfboard fin and submit it for them to post. Check it out!