it’s pledge season. my npr shows are peppered with appeals for donations, my workplace has whole book of worthy causes, and both my inbox and mailbox overfloweth with reminders of the poor and hungry among us.
in past years, i’ve greeted this influx with a mixture of guilt and stress, muttering “yeah, yeah…i’ll get to it…” as i changed the channel or added the envelope to the black hole of Things To Look At Later on my desk. but for some reason, now I find myself looking for opportunities to give.
