Steven Kleinman MHDC Personal

Hi blog world. Let's get personal:

As many of you east coasters know, huge storm last weekend. 24 inches at my house outside of Philadelphia where I was visiting for an event in Mount Airy. Anyway, huge amount of snow, and across the street from my parents house there live a number of older families. As I helped my dad shovel out the car and shovel out the walkway and the stairs and the walk from the house to the sidewalk, I watched neighbors finish their own work and go over to check on the old people.

Seeing this, I was reminded of being a small boy and helping out my grandmother to her car. I remember I did it as an assignment from jewish school to do a mitzva. This surely is the season for Mitzvot and it made me wonder how to make sure to incorporate caring for those in more need into our houses programing in January. Not the big sort of planning thing, but the down and dirty. Specifically setting up a group of folks to feed the homeless.