Do Something

At tomorrow's Day of Service at NCC, you can plant an organic garden, contribute food to a campus pantry, give future freshmen advice about starting college, make PB&J sandwiches for hungry people at the INN, adopt a U.S. battalion in Afghanistan, donate pet food and supplies to a nearby animal shelter, buy cookies to support multiple sclerosis research, and recycle old cell phones so U.S troops across the globe can call home more easily. 

You can also donate IPods to nursing home residents, buy a cupcake to support the Ronald McDonald House, collect toiletries and other "life" supplies for survivors of domestic violence, help clean up the Hempstead plains, gather school supplies for kids in Haiti, contribute a brick to a Habitat for Humanity project, send a thank you note to a teacher who's made a difference in your life, and--yes--even be part of a Zumba flash mob.

So what should you choose?

Your call. 

But above all, do something. 

NCC's Day of Service is about extending yourself, about getting out of your comfort zone, and about realizing that the way to make things better is for everyone, including you, to extend a hand.  It doesn't matter what form that helping hand takes. It doesn't matter whether you're tending to the environment, to women and children in crisis, to new college students, to senior citizens, to hungry people across town, or to poor schoolkids a nation away. 

What does matter is your presence and your participation.

In a world that's often short on kindness and generosity, do your part tomorrow to make up the deficit.

Mark the date and place: Wednesday, April 2, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., College Center.

See you there.