“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
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It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”―Henry David Thoreau.
UPDATE: There is a 10-day lead time on these masks. We are a small team working 24/7 to convert t-shirts to masks.We can convert any t-shirt order into a double-layered DIY cloth face mask with elastic ear loops. These are not the n95 face masks our hospitals need, so you won't be taking from any frontline workers.
But because there are so many asymptomatic people spreading the virus, there would be less community spread of the virus via the droplets caused by talking, coughing, and sneezing. That's why the while out doing essential trips.The se masks are not adequate protection against COVID-19.
But they can help your community. Social distancing, good hygiene (like washing hands and sanitizing surfaces), and staying home are the best protection.Making your own mask out of an old t-shirt is easy and free. You can see a guide, and the science supporting #masks4all. This product is us cutting one of our new t-shirts and converting it into a cloth mask for you, so that you have one that looks cool. We will be donating the excess material from the back of the shirts we cut up to a network of people making masks for donations around the country.
We'll also be making additional masks of our own and donating them to essential workers, hospitals, and organizations around the country who are expressing a need. If you'd like to build your own here is a design from a recent study published in the medical journal.The piece of the shirt logo you get will vary from mask to mask. If you want no graphic design (aka the back of the shirt) you can select that as well. These are made to order by Celina of t.UPDATE: We have connected with two groups making masks, and are urging our fans to join us in donating shirts to help them create more.
You know that shirt someone traded you that you just never threw away because you'd feel bad, but also haven't worn in years? Let's make a mask out of it.We've teamed up with a group of professors and students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are making and donating masks to frontline workers which have a filter in them that is closer to N95 quality (although not quite). They are running low on cloth. Hard Times is sending them a bunch of shirts. You can send your shirts by contacting hhirsekorn@saic.eduWe've also teamed up with, a non-profit with ties to the DIY music community that is creating cloth masks and giving them out for free to those in need. We'll be sending them a bunch of shirts and you can too by contacting fred.pessaro@gmail.com.
A riveting universe definition. God had only to leave the universe as is, allowing all its components to function in harmony.This was the idea of the 'rest' God enjoyed on Shabbat (Genesis 2:2). It was that God had brought the world to a state of perfection. Everything the world required and would ever require existed and had been put into place. It was not, of course, that an all-powerful God was 'tired' and had to take a break from His work.
LOS ANGELES — Amateur clothing vendor and entrepreneur Brian Wessel is puzzled by his company’s lack of T-shirt sales after using the back side of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album for their inaugural piece of apparel, frustrated sources confirmed.“We really thought we’d hit a home run with a Joy Division shirt,” said Wessel, standing in front of 50 unopened boxes of medium-sized T-shirts. “The shirts just didn’t connect with anyone despite being, from what I’m told, one of the most recognizable pieces of cover art out there. And somehow, we can’t even give them away.”Company intern and sole employee Jeremy Thayer, assigned to physically scan the cover image to send directly to third-party printers, admittedly scanned the wrong side of the album.“Honestly, I’ve never used a scanner before,” Thayer acknowledged. “I thought scanning the album right-side up would get me the front cover, but turns out it had to be upside down or something. Now that I think about it, I probably should’ve checked that digital scan before forwarding it to the printers for the bulk orders. Well, live and learn.”Wessel reportedly reached out to fellow music apparel outfitters for advice after failing to reach any of his sales goals.“Failure is part of the game. One time, we ordered 5,000 Black Flag shirts and got 5,000 Rollins Band tees instead,” said Punk Gear Unlimited owner Nicole Puga.
“It nearly bankrupted us. We ended up selling them to a rag supply company in Canada for pennies on the dollar. People like familiarity.
Unfortunately for him, a shirt of the Joy Division tracklist won’t sell because most people haven’t actually ever heard those songs.”Wessel has since been working on new merch in hopes of recovering from the debut shirt’s financial loss.“We have a huge order of fidget spinners coming in with the cover of Metallica’s black album printed on them,” said Wessel. “If those things don’t sell, maybe I’m just not cut out for the bootleg merchandise business.”.