“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
---Jacob Riis
My daughter was home sick today, which of course is never fun. So hard to watch a little kid be uncomfortable, as she was. Seems like probably it's a stomach bug but hard to know yet....So today I did a medley of things --organized a small holiday party for some moms and young kids, took initial steps to coordinating basketball team outreach to community elementary schools, worked on a MoverMoms upcoming event and on getting coordinators of different projects.
None of these things really add up to too much individually but all are part of my general goal to be a participating member of the larger community. That's what I love about this quote, given to me by a friend who is also the girls basketball coach. In the context of volunteering, it means that we take on the big projects and do them successfully because of all the little projects and details that we focus on much of the time. We make a big difference over time by making a smaller difference on a day to day basis.
0 comments:
Post a Comment