How about jobs-for-Joe?
Even with improved SEO algorithm we still can’t type into a Search engine for jobs, and find one for 9.6% of us.
During the hunter-and-gatherer phase, we hunted in pack, and moved on.
(There are more of us now, so 10% of a huge population equates to a lot of people).
Hence, food for families, and toys for tots.
The Salvation Army guys are ringing the bells once again.
According to Christian Science Monitor, charity will lag the rebound in the overall economy i.e. 2011 will also be a bad year still for non-profit sector.
I was touched when reading about The Long Table in LA Times yesterday.
Each Thanksgiving, the couple invites everyone and the table keeps getting longer.
Skid row in LA, skid row in Boston, and Tenderloin district in SF.
We have learned to tune out our nation’s poor, by making a detour, even when our GPS indicates the shortest route takes us through those clusters.
It takes a village, compassionate politics, community redevelopment etc…
Every generation needs to hear: Ask not what your country can do for you.
I read about a steak house in TX whose CEO was struck that his dishwasher’s families could not afford a funeral. So they chipped in and took care of their own. Since then,
every time a server passes through the kitchen door, he/she touches the dishwasher’s picture before serving their customer. Now, that’s team work.
Marketing unbranding shouldn’t spill over to all areas of life. We will soon bury names like Cingular, MySpace etc…but people are not supposed to be “un-branded” (facebook has put together a policy to “delete” a decease’s profile). This tool-for-talk will survive us all. This reminds me of a line in the City of God, “our soul is anchored in the heavenly…no wonder our heart is restless….”
Our profile and legacy will all be stored in the “cloud”, as prescienced by sinner-turned-saint Augustine. My food-for-thoughts, your food-for-families.
Thang Nguyen 555 