CARE packages

Sometimes when i think i am good at starting things / sometimes too good at starting things / without enough follow through i remember being in high school during the years right after World War 2 when the administration and students of Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, decided to send CARE packages to war survivors in Europe

Here is some history and what CARE stands for :

"We've always been known by the acronym "CARE," but the meaning behind the letters has changed as our mission has broadened. When we were founded in 1945, CARE stood for "Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe." Today, with projects in more than 60 countries around the world, CARE stands for "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc."

we decided that each homeroom in the school of three grades would send a package every month / i volunteered to be the CARE representative for my homeroom / this meant i collected 25cents from each student (usually about 30 in a homeroom) each month for the nine months of the school year

and i am proud to say that i did it / i did it / smile / all three years of high school

you would have to know me to understand what this means / i find it easy to change my mind / to put off continuing projects i have started / over time i have incorporated ME into my philosophy of life known as The Way of The Improvaho in which i never have to finish anything (or how would anything get done) and Indecision Permits Flexibility but more about that another time

I had pictures of food floating through my head this afternoon / i wasnt really hungry but i think of food anyway / at some point i will go in the kitchen, rummage through the ice box / come up with something tasty / and then i imagined what it must feel like to have those pictures of food floating through your head and not knowing where your next meal was coming from and i remembered sending CARE packages and now i wonder if i am doing as much as i can

there's a lot of hungry people out there in the world

for starters i am sending a donation to CARE and checking out what more i can do, give, or share

http://www.careusa.org/index.asp

maybe, you too ?