Tuesday, February 8, 2011

A Sewing Lesson

The other night a few friends and I began to discuss education, ingenuity, and culture. How we as Americans are falling behind in education and intellect, yet how we continue to produce ingenuity- the new, the creative, the inspired. And we are puzzled and we commend ourselves. And it’s true, there are great minds here, but that is not what divides us. There is genius in every culture, in every race and in the expanse of the major religions. There are those who stand apart, because we can rightfully distinguish them as Great.

What we create, others perfect. What we envision and cultivate, others produce rapidly and with excellence. We create functionality and it is genius. But why? How do we continue to lead the world in progress and development, in simply foreword thinking? In the midst of a great recession, where true, Basic Need is Here; we are still prone to ingenuity. It is the fabric of our social character to dream and to aspire to something greater, because it’s possible. So we dream, whether individually or corporately, we strive. For in countries like India, mobility is not reality, it’s not even an ideal. There is no safety, no cushion in their financial state and so they look to be sustained and the solution is work. To work longer, to worker harder, and to work younger. It is in that same longer and harder and younger that we allotted the time to creative.

But look







things are changing. And in this one classroom hut, mobility is being institutionalized. This is REAL. It takes little to change the world. But it takes the most valuable possessions we own; our time and our money.



So Give. Whether you come or you donate, you’re not giving just HOPE, you’re giving New Life. There is no excuse, really. There is opportunity to do Good. Every moment is a decision to either do Good and in that choice, we are either sewing ourselves more tightly to that Good or we are separating ourselves even further from it.