After All

After posting stories and my wide ranging thoughts on education, today is a day left to pondering. I'm left to think about what, if any, difference does it make that I blog about education, events taking place with our charity and the ongoing struggle for justice within schools and their communities.

In the whole scheme of things we are but a bit player. I get it. But on another level, in that building of 325 children or in that corner of a blighted neighborhood the only hope that many have is that perhaps one day someone will show up and say 'you matter.'

And that is the driving force. Can we offer a bit of help, a small ray of hope, and something tangible - be it a new coat, some sparkling band instruments, or some needed classroom supplies - so that people can march on knowing they count in the world?

Yes they do and in the words of a man I admire...'yes we can.'

Dick