"If you face life with a spirit of adventure and courage, you will get more out of it than if you are timid and unimaginative."
---Eleanor Roosevelt
Today I drove my close friend Salma's daughter home from school. Salma is off on a great adventure, building cultural bridges between Americans, Pakistanis, and the people of Kashmir. I love the way she lives life with such a strong spirit of adventure and courage.
Her daughter is equally admirable. Though she's only a teenager, she has raised thousands and thousands of dollars for various international charities, including the Central Asia Society and Pennies for Peace, by making creative greeting cards that can be used for different occasions.
I have broadened my definition of community service to include close-to-home projects like these because I truly believe that while helping strangers in need is a wonderful thing to do, it's also really important to help those in our immediate community, in whatever way they might need.
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