What are you doing on Monday?

Quote du jour: Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. -Martin Luther King

I just read that the Obamas are making plans for Monday. With hours left before they move into the White House and he becomes our next president, they are joining the national day of service in honor of Martin Luther King. This is not new to the office of president; Mr. Obama's predecessors have also participated in the "day on not day off" since it was initiated in 1994. What is new is the national spot light shining on the National Day of Service, courtesy of the presidential inauguration committee.

The committee has put up a website to connect people with opportunities to serve. It's here http://www.usaservice.org/page/content/eventsearch. I hope you'll take advantage of it, or of other electronic or local networks for volunteerism. I could say all sorts of things about how the world needs everything we can give, how the best ethical education for our children comes from the doing, how barriers to community dissolve when people work on common goals. Or (stop me if you've heard this one), "Yes, we can." I could say all that, but I won't. I'll just say this, "soooooooo0 what ARE youdoing on Monday?"


Now, of course, no one day is THE day when the world reaches it's tipping point towards justice, but you gotta start somewhere. Let's start here. On Monday, the 19th of January. Take a day on with your friends. Take a day on with your colleagues. Take a day on with your family. And change the world.