Put Yourself to the Test

Although this video is ultimately promoting something near and dear to my heart, I think the message can be applied to many parts of life.

* A Peachtree Middle School boy who lives in Dunwoody apparently got hit getting off (or after getting off) the bus last Thursday. (I have yet to find an official account of this.)

* According to the Community Assessment document, about 2,000 Dunwoody residents live below the poverty line.

* And a box turtle lay dying in my street as car after car and walker after walker passed it without doing anything to help it (until my friend Richard moved it to where it could die with dignity).

Someone walked by while we were cleaning up the post office site for the farmers market yesterday and said, "I've been walking my dog through here for years and I wondered when they were going to clean it up." I told the man, "There is no they, you know. There is only we."

It is time for me to notice things more. It is time for me to do something to make a bigger difference. There is no they. There is only you and me. And what we choose to notice--and act on--matters.