Dog Food

Last night I had a great opportunity to see a Christmas show. Katie's mom is a music teacher at Covenant School. Its a private christian school who held its annual Christmas chapel. It was beautiful. Lots of wonderful Christmas songs sung by kindergartners and older kids and much more. Katie's mom did a great job conducting the songs. It was really nice and fun. However, I have to admit I felt a little weird.

You see prior to coming out to the event, Katie and I went to serve food at the Center of Hope. Its a women's homeless shelter at Union Gospel Church downtown Dallas. It something we have the privilege of doing for a while now. The women there with their children come out for a nice hot meal. We served beef stew, corn muffin, rice, and cheese veggies.

I couldn't help but notice the difference the kids and mom's are from the shelter and those attending and participating in the play. Some obvious differences like the way everyone looked, how they dressed, how the kids behaved, etc. I saw one parent with their video camera filming their child singing songs. Laughing. Enjoying their kid perform in front of a large crowd at this nice church.

When just an hour ago, a parent at the shelter said "I heard their serving dog food tonight?"

Katie and I talked about it on our way home.

What if those kids from the shelter had the chance to go to a school like Covenant. Would the moms think that was a good idea if they could? Why do some kids have better opportunities then others? And after everything is said and done, should it really matter?

Procrastination

I have given a lot of thought about writing my first blog. What is the requirements? The Format? The subject? I thought about it so much in fact, that my brain was exhausted and it couldn't tell my fingers to go and start one. Typical of me actually. Putting in a lot of thought but little action. I "thought" this might be some form of procrastination or something. I don't know, but i was curious to understand why. So I decided to do some more brain exercises and research during my lunch time at work. AND of course log my actions in whatever format a blog is suppose to have.

I am not sure if this kind of a blog will send me to the top read blog sites in history or whether my countless number of blog readers will get overly excited about but....I'm hoping it will leap start my blog writing and who knows, it could, at the same time, provide good self development. (just in case those IT guys are wondering why I have been on this website for about 1 hour)

So where else to research by online. My first search entered in yahoo of course went like this: "so what causes people to not write a blog." I know what your thinking. For some strange reason, that sentence is missing something or written wrong. I spent a while trying to figure that out and decided the best thing to do is leave it and move on. So here are the results:

Why Needing to Be Liked Causes People to Not Like you

Smart People Write

The Causes of Terrorism: It's Not about Money

Race-related blog drawing white-hot reactions

And my personal favorite...101 people who are screwing up Canada (and 10 who are not)

After doing some further countless searching and even looking for a picture to add I realized I have 5 minutes before our team meeting. I cant believe how fast time went! My phone just rang too, I hope it wasn't important. Oh I forgot I need to send an email. How fast stuff PILES up on you.

Anyway...I hope this meeting isn't a waste of time. I have a lot of things i need to do...