Changing the World
I was a very idealistic kid: I wanted to the change the
world. Unfortunately I’ve grown up. Yet I still want to change the world.
On the other hand I have no skills to stop/prevent:
Climate change
Greece
from defaulting
Face it—there is so much bad news out there that I can do
nothing about, except read/hear/watch it on the news. AND there is more bad
news about the news:
Newspapers are dying! http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06-12/times-picayune-cutting-half-of-newsroom-staff
There is no such thing as fair and unbiased!
Media frenzy/hysteria/overload!
I can do nothing about the above either. Even the stuff I
think I have control over is a fiction. My fiction is fiction—so too is a lot
of my non-fiction.
Just getting up each morning is a leap of faith.
There is one skill I do have and which I frequently
employ—my ability to write.
Recently, I wrote a story about a leap of faith, about
coming to Chicago straight out of college in 1982
to work at a non-profit here in Chicago.
THAT WHICH I SHOULD HAVE DONE I DID NOT DO is a flash (1000 words) about one of
my visitation ladies. The title is based upon a painting of the same name by Ivan Albright
hanging at the Art Institute of Chicago. It is a picture, painted in great
detail, of a door. Graduating from college is like a door: a door you can run
SLAM into or a door that can open—perhaps to other doors or lead me somewhere.
Who knows!
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| That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do |
The cool thing about THAT WHICH is that I submitted it to
Adroit Journal, a literary mag dedicated to ending poverty. If that isn’t
idealistic, I don’t know what is. Adroit was started by Peter LaBerge a high
school senior. Yeah, just a kid out to change the world. He spearheaded the
journal with all proceeds to go to the Acumen Fund an organization that strives to one day give every human being access to the critical goods and services they need – including affordable health, water, housing, energy, agricultural inputs and services – so that they can make decisions and choices for
themselves and unleash their full human potential. About Adroit. About Acumen Fund
Isn’t this the coolest thing ever. It’s about writing for a
change. Peter and his staff put a lot of hard work into this current issue, so
why not check it out. Maybe ORDER a copy. It’s only $15 and each issue purchased contributes $7.22 to Acumen. Do something today: Read, Write, Take a Leap of
Faith, Change the World.
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