the german friday

Blog Action Day – Poverty

When I signed up for Blog Action Day this year, I was perplexed by the topic at first. Poverty. I thought “What do I know about poverty?” What does the majority of America know about poverty for that matter? I mulled this over as I drove home from my job, in my newish car, to my subdivision, where I own a house that has a working furnace and a solid roof. I stopped and bought gasoline with my debit card. I pulled into my driveway and weaved my way through a garage full of mass produced toys, past my Harley, all the tools I didn’t have to create by hand etc.

I realized that even though economic times are tough in the US, especially in southeastern Michigan where we all suffer along with the big 3 automakers, we will never truly know what it is like to be impoverished. I think of the homeless people that hit me up for money every day at work, the stories you read on the web and hear on the news, of the war torn cities overseas. I think of the Indian Dalit who still, in 2008, are treated as less than human. 

For all of these reasons I try not to let financial woes get to me. We really don’t have any. Everyone on the planet has their own cross to bear. For those in poverty the cross looks very heavy.

New iPhone

Writing this post from the Wordpress app on my new iPhone 3G.

Red Wings Victory Parade

As most of the free world is well aware, the Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup on Wednesday. Today was the Victory Parade, here in Detroit. The parade started at the HockeyTown Cafe and ended at Hart Plaza, where there is a rally taking place. My office building is about midway down the parade route at Campus Martius. We watched the whole parade from the 5th floor windows. A friend of mine, Pat Cubbler, took a ton of good pictures of the crowd, the trophies and the players as they rolled by.