United Way for Southeastern Michigan

The magnitude of what we're doing here didn't really hit me until tonight at the group reflection. For the last three days, my team and I have been painting apartments, cleaning out storage areas, and playing with the children in the daycare at Lighthouse Path in Pontiac; for the last three days, I was subconsciously frustrated with the lack of instant gratification that I felt should be resulting from the work that I'm doing. I guess it's easy to loose sight of the bigger picture and realize the impact that you make when you volunteer, regardless of what it is that you're actually physically doing-- my mom always tells me that I have a tendency to bite off more than I can chew and then get overwhelmed and then proceeds to tell me that I need to drop everything else and just study, study, study! HA. If I could, I think I'd make school about third on my list of priorities (of course, we don't live in a world where that's exactly a wise decision). Anyway, back to my magnificent epiphany of the day..

Actually it's kind of a series of epiphanies...and they're more like an understanding. I like lists, so I'm just going to write a list o' understandings:

1) There's strength in numbers. As an individual, I can only make so much of a difference...but when I gang up with my fellow volunteers the impact is huge. Hence the slogan: live united!

ummm we're getting kicked out of the UC, so I have to go. I'll finish this later.