“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
- Napoleon Hill
Service above self is a nice slogan but how does that translate into action for each of us? This weekend I met some very nice people who volunteered in Emmaus to transfer 23 dogs transported here from a rural Georgia shelter to a van going to Rochester, NY where the dogs are already matched with recipients who will give them their Forever homes…yay! This wasn’t a Rotary sponsored activity, but it was still good people who feel a calling to help rescue dogs that would otherwise have been put down but will now go to families where there aren’t enough dogs.
The process to make this happen speaks well of the many people involved [including my sister Elain Brown who I am very proud of for her part in this effort] who take in the dogs, process them, give them medical attention, do the necessary paperwork, connect with other shelters, monetarily support the transport, maintain the shelter, facilitate the transfers, walk the dogs at the transfer point, etc. that makes this happen almost monthly….truly amazing but in the grand scheme of things really very small but so very important to help us make this world a bit better than the way we found it.
So, my point is that I want to thank all our members who do so many things outside of Rotary that benefit our society that we may never know about…thank you, thank you, thank you!
