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It’s the deer-in-the-headlights What the hell do I do for something so incredibly hopeless? For a country already in such dire straits? Why do I feel like such an ass that I didn’t focus in on the despicable conditions in Haiti before? How come it took yet another complete biblical act to draw the world’s [...]
Archive for the ‘Giving’ Category
November 30th, 2009
Tree Climber Saves Christmas
You’ve heard me blog and beg and plead and look to you to help us find someone to light the local tree. The extraordinary Straun Edwards from Trees 360 Degrees did indeed light the tree for our community and the San Jose Mercury News’ Sharon Noguchi covered the event.
Read the awesome story here!
Posted in Giving, Holidays 
Tags: christmas, Holidays, lighting, mercury news, sharon noguchi, tree 
No Comments »November 27th, 2009
A Good Guy for a Good Cause
As many of you know, our annual Community Tree Lighting Ceremony is Thursday, December 3 at 6:30 p.m. As more of you know, I nearly lost my skull worried over the actual *lighting* of the tree. It’s a bad economy, we all know it. But no lit tree in our town? Really, I need a [...]
November 17th, 2009
Tree is Bare, Branches are Full
The tree lighting ceremony drama –lighting up my frustration from here to Thomas Edison’s grave and back — continues. There are a million technicalities, hurdles, economic downturn-rejections and red tape landmines everywhere I turn. All of this, of course, in two languages. It’s sort of borderlining on panic.
But, there is also a fullness I’ve never [...]
