I met Jay from Passion To Action during a series from Summit Church in Orlando called Dignity Serves.  We focused on the area of service, particularly what service is, what service does and does not do, both for the apparent "server" and "servee".

The overlying premise of Dignity Serves was the fact that service actually tends to "serve" the one serving more than it does the one whom is "being served."  Now, I use the term "being served" very lightly here and wish I had a better word.  Lets transition this from server and servee to an example of a volunteer and homeless person.  

In most cases, the volunteer would offer some kind of service to the homeless person.  This could be food, water, clothes, prayers, shelter, etc.  The volunteer tends to feel good or great from their "act of service."  In the volunteer feeling good, they assume the homeless person also feels good, getting a nice boost in some form, whether it be food, water, clothes, etc.  

The fact is, while the volunteer is left with a positive feeling from their service, the homeless person is actually left with a void, a sense of lesser being.  Through needing help, they feel helpless.  They are stripped of their dignity, hence Dignity Serves.  

Dignity Serves focuses on two way service.  Where as service was shown from the volunteer to the homeless person, ultimately service is shown from the homeless person to the volunteer in order to avoid stripping the homeless person of their dignity.  Most individuals in such a situation (a homeless person in our example) would generally not recognize their ability to offer a reciprocal act of service, but they do indeed have the assets to return a favor.  It just takes recognizing the asset the homeless person possesses and matching it with the volunteers need.

The volunteer will often have to ask for help, but asking can have the effect of empowering the homeless individual, letting them feel a sense of worth and ability to not just be helped, but offer help!  Not just be served, but offer service.  Rather than taking ones dignity, this reciprocal act can transform individuals to a feeling of worth.  Dignity is raised and lifted rather than stripped and beaten down.  Dignity Serves.

Getting back to Jay from Passion To Action, we recently put together and printed a few designs for he and his crew.  Above is one, I'll follow with more.

Below is a map of the Passion To Action travel schedule.  For more, check out www.passiontoaction.org.

In addition to the Sustainability Coordinator shirts we printed earlier this month for Rollins College, we followed them up with some great tote bags.

There are on a natural, 100% cotton canvas totes, very similar to the shirts.  Of course, we used our waterbase ink to keep them even more natural!

Together with our friends at Exposed PR & Events in Ft. Lauderdale, we recently printed shirts for Nootie, a great new company specializing in pet shampoo.  Nootie is far more than pet shampoo though making the first ever pet shampoo and daily spritz in one bottle.  

Patrick was lucky enough to score a sample of Nootie which Kahlua (on the right) was rather delighted with :)

As for the shirts, Nooite opted for American Apparel.

To grab a bottle of Nootie for yourself (or your pet), check out www.nootie.com.

We recently connected with long time client Time-Peace out of Ft. Lauderdale and were able to score a few of their timepieces.  Time-Peace is a revolutionary, new-age watch and clock company aimed at helping people change their perception of time so they can stop worrying and start Being.  The goal at Time-Peace is to help create a radical shift in the way people view the world by realizing our interconnectedness through the idea of living in the present moment.

I must say, I've had so many complements on my Time-Peace!  I was at Merrigan's Boutique in Orlando one afternoon and a lady wanted to buy it right off my wrist.  I held onto it :)

Give these guys a look though.  The watches are amazingly priced in the $35 range!  

Much love for Time-Peace, give them a look: www.time-peace.org