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\"\"<\/a>Today’s one of those rare days when there’s just too much to write about! Should I share the great kid in the UK whose blogging (w\/ photos) about her bad school lunches has changed school policy?<\/p>\n

How about the morning I spent w\/ 40 8&9-year-old Girl Scouts, talking about stereotypes, work, dreams, and being a woman in today’s world? And how my amazing niece set it all up?<\/p>\n

Or maybe I should share my wonderful lunch w\/ another niece, and a nephew? Give you a window into what a joy it is to share intelligent conversation w\/ two bright minds…<\/p>\n

I’m sticking w\/ the good news — totally non-political! — from the UK. You’ll have to check back for the others :).<\/p>\n

So VEG, the blogger at Never Seconds<\/a>,decided she’d had enough of the tasteless, inadequate, and nutritionally empty lunches at her primary school in the UK. (The one above at least didn’t have hair in it!) VEG decided to (virtually) share them, taking pictures and posting them to a blog. The responses have been startling. She’s had more than a million views! How cool is that? Celebrity chef and food activist Jamie\u00a0 Oliver even stopped in!<\/p>\n

I tell my students, my family, my friends, complete strangers<\/em>, that writing is power. And it’s a great Buddhist power — non-violent, targeted & focused. And so useful :). Want to change the world? Get out something to write with. And then go for it.<\/p>\n

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