Posted by: McQ on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 An interesting thing happened to my wife at her new job. Her boss gathered the whole company together (its a small one) and handed each employee $200. He said, "this is for you to spend on Christmas, but not for yourself and not for your family or friends. I want you go out and help someone in need". Neat. So for a week we've been casting about trying to figure out who to help. And when we finally decided, well, $200 just isn't enough. Oh, I know, you can't cure the world's problems alone. And especially with $200. But hey, you can make a dent, even if it is small. In a very libertarian fashion, we decided to help two private institutions. One which is a shelter for children and the other an old folks home. The children's shelter is a natural. Kids alone at Christmas. You know, I have some of my fondest childhood memories of family and Christmas and literally can't imagine what these youngsters must go through at this time of the year. Magic is probably not a word they use often. We'd like to do our best to provide at least a little if we can. One look at their wish list and you can see their needs in just the basic things of life. The staff there is wonderful and mostly volunteers. They have a mission in their volunteer work ... to make a difference in the lives of these kids. We can help them. And the old folks. Let me tell you, as I get older I understand how much more I become "invisible" in our society. We simply don't treat our old folks as they deserve. I'm not going to launch into a lecture about any of that however. Instead, we're going to do something about it. We've adopted the last 5 in the home which hadn't been adopted for Christmas and we'll be buying them some gifts (and necessities) and visiting them on Christmas eve. All that to say if you'd like to participate we'd welcome it. Hit the PayPal donation button to donate. We'll put your name on the card to both locations. If you feel so moved, really anything will do. We're not asking for big bucks at all. A couple of dollars or whatever. And rest assured every penny will go to make Christmas just a little bit better in both places. |
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