Week 2

I wish I was better at writing. I don't mind blogging weekly, but I find it hard to write down thoughts in a way that makes sense. I am trying to write down blog post ideas if they come to me this year, I have spent considerable time in the past few years staring at this computer screen wondering what to write about, as I'm sure most of you have too. At the meeting on the 8th part of the discussion was the  Benevolent Foundation and Ms. Fuhr asked what it was. I wrote down a note in the meeting based one what Sifu Brinker was saying about how it isn't necessarily about the charities and the money we raise, but how it changes US. Empathy training is only successful if the student actually feels empathy, makes a connection of some kind. I think that is where we are failing, not making those connections. It got easy for me working with so many SCARS animals at work, you can't not be moved by seeing a starving dog wolf down it's first meal in who knows how long, or watching an abused animal recover from it's wounds. I don't know how, but I want us all to take it onto ourselves to make a connection to our charities, make it personal. If we are supposed to be inspiring the school to raise 20,000 we need to be inspired ourselves. I think one of our down falls has been waiting to long to get this going, if anyone has any ideas about ways to bring this to the school, maybe has a talent with putting together a video or something, we should talk. How cool would it be to make this year the year we do this?