Day 82 -- De-Cluttering to give stuff to shelter

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
---Theodore Roosevelt

Today I did a much needed cleaning of the basement and of clothes that we no longer wear. I've got a few huge bags of stuff to donate to a local shelter, and will drive it over in the next couple of weeks. Doesn't seem like much of a project perhaps, but to me it's really good because it kills two birds with one stone. The de-cluttering is needed for basic neatness in my home, and the collecting of usable and wearable (is that a word?) stuff that we don't use is valuable because hopefully other people can use it.

I especially like this quote because it emphasizes the concept that each person contributes in his/her own way. It's awesome when you can directly help someone sick or homeless or helpless, but it's also very good, I have come to believe, to take smaller, more indirect steps towards helping people, and doing so in whatever way you can.