I launched this blog with the best intentions of making updates as regularly as I could. It didn't take long to realize that my goal was a loftier one that I was going to be able to realize, especially with a full time job and a pretty full slate of volunteer obligations year-round.
Rather than just let the flame go out entirely on this idea, though, I'm refocusing LWTCTW. I'll still do topical updates when I find an interesting way for any/all of us to make a pro-social impact, but I'm going to actually use my page in the way the earliest web logs were intended: as a personal journal. I won't bore you with the ups and downs of my personal life, mind you--just check in with updates on my own daily efforts to make a positive impact. Some entries will be short and sweet, some will be longer and more opinionated, but it's my sincerest hope that none of them will be tedious!
Anyway, here's the first batch of do-goodering that I endeavored in the new year:
- Met up with a music industry supporter who recently cleaned out his closets so that he could hand off a few hundred CDs and books donated to the Sean McGrath Fund, then sorted and listed them for sale.
- Printed 200 sheets of flyers for Friends of Carroll Park (promoting January food drive, April volunteer party, and 2012 calendar of events) at home; had them cut at Staples.
- Sold, packaged, and shipped 8 CDs to raise money for the Sean McGrath Fund.
I have a core of four or five charities that I support most frequently and fervently, so these entries will be repetetive, but the stats nerd in me is already looking forward to crunching the numbers at the end of the year. I hope you'll at least occasionally check in along the way!
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