Volunteering & Volunteer Students

I'm angry. Yesterday I dropped soup off at a friend's house, talked to another for over an hour, drove in the slushy rain and listened to reports on the chaos in Pakistan following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. It's haunting me. At the gym the TV in front of the treadmill was airing Oprah. She was interviewing John Wood from Room to Read. The TV next to me was airing the aftermath of violence at a political rally where the cost of speaking her mind was death. I'm haunted. I'm thinking about Reavers. And how we make the monsters that live among us.

I'm angry at myself for not doing more and I'm inspired by John Wood to find a way to do more. Leaving my job isn't my answer; at least not now. But finding a way to integrate my desire to do more, give more, share more, inspire more, is.