Revitalize!

I’m really enjoying God’s gift of yearly cycles.  During the summer, especially, is my time to refresh, re-energize, and re-commit.  This is possible because so many things slow down during this season as people focus on vacations and family.

Sometimes the summer “break” feels a little weird because our kids are grown up and I’m running my own business, but that’s a topic for another day.

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The economy of volunteerism

Here’s an interesting idea I get from Clay Shirky’s video above (if you can’t see it, try this link):  Many useful things these days are being done purely by volunteers.

That’s a huge change from the way we usually think.  We tend to focus on what organizations do through their employees, and by money changing hands.  But [...]