To Blog or Not to Blog?

To Blog or Not To Blog?

Rubber Duckies never lie, are fair to all, make lots of friends, and are a great benefit to all they meet! They easily pass the Four Way Test and make superb bathtub buddies. Even so, not all duckies are identical. Like us, each duckie develops his/her own unique personality and legacy bobbing and weaving through the sudsy "tides of time". This particular plastic pundit has penned the really big ponderance we all must persue sooner or later, namely what the duck can we do to make a real difference in this world? Willie Duckspeare posits the very purpose of our existence! Against what specific injustices, inequalites, or outright evils should we "suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them?" With so many good causes available, how do we contemplative crusaders decide? What to do? What to do and who will help us get it done? What hope is there in a world that needs so, so much good work?

The answer is: join Rotary! Rotarians use the magic of leverage to tackle diseases, hunger, ignorance, poverty, war, and injustice throughout the world! They multiply and leverage their efforts, their skills, their dedication, their resources, their intelligence, their caring, and their imaginations 1.2 million times over by working as a "world-wide family" in over 33,000 clubs spread out into every corner of the globe! Whether it's giving dictionaries to school kids, supplying villages with clean water, micro-credit loans to banish rural poverty, scholarships for future leaders, or eradicating the dread scourges of polio and malaria, Rotary does what no government or NGO has ever done. We Rotarians accomplish our dreams and then dream again and again . . . always bigger, better and bolder. Rotary gets it done! We fullfill our promises to others and to ourselves!

Rotary is huge; it offers members countless opportunities to participate in its programs and projects of SERVICE ABOVE SELF! In fact, each Rotary club is completely autonomous and chooses whatever projects it wants. Within each club, each member is also free to participate according to their own dictates and interests. All volunteers, all the time, Rotarians have skills and energy to offer and are dedicated to their causes in their own individual ways. Rotary needs and seeks all types of members and is a non-religious, non-political, equal-opportunity collection of those folks who want to give back and make the world a better place!

If you are already a Rotarian, then we have been "blogging to the choir"! You know what an incredible opportunity Rotary offers to folks who want to make a difference. To you we say: Thanks and "keep on, keepin' on"! If you are NOT YET A ROTARIAN, please check out our district web site @ www.rotary5160.org for a club near you. Check out our web site for all our activities and projects. Check out Rotary International's web site at: www.rotary.org to see the really, really, really big Rotary picture. But mostly, check out your own heart and mind and see if something is missing there. If you think that maybe you would enjoy helping other folks just like you do good things to make our world a better place, both locally and globally, and if you would like to have lots of FUN doing it, then you really need to check out joining your local Rotary club. Like all those rubber duckies in the world, none of us are identical either, but we ALL have something to offer to Rotary, and Rotary has lots to offer all of us! Rotary even needs bloggers! So, the answer for Willie Duckspeare? Blog on, McDuck, blog on for Rotary!