Be The Change

I got the National Center for Missing Adults’ latest newsletter and was struck by a number of things. The fact there was a newsletter at all was like getting a jolt of oxygen. The Center has been threatened with closure as they wait for the government to pay the promised staffing costs to respond to Katrina. In one of the disaster’s brighter moments – the National Center for Missing Adults helped resolve 99.8% of the missing persons cases it responded to. They’ve been waiting for $4 million from congress for I don’t know how long. I think that’s about 12 seconds in Iraq. Maybe if everyone could just take an couple of deep breaths…

The Executive Director, an abduction survivor, had mortgaged her home and the Center was working on an all volunteer basis. All the news about the Center was from October/November last year, when it seemed like they were going to have to shut down their doors. Anyway, that’s why it was so refreshing to see a well-produced 4 page newsletter. Not to mention, the content was moving and inspiring.

The other thing I was struck by was the choice to include a quote from Mahatma Ghandi, “Be The Change Ypu Want To See In The World” I’m 100% down for that, but for some reason a National Center of anything quoting Ghandi, caught me a little off guard. On the other hand, it was just perfect (except for the typo), totally spot on. Yes. Be The Change. I got all inspired (again) by that. Gets me every time, actually, thinking about Ghandi. Or Dr. King, or Jesus or John Lennon, for that matter.

There was another quote on the back that also struck me: “Working together, incredible things can be achieved”

down with that, too.