20 Minutes at Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

I was supposed to volunteer for OneBrick at Great Glass Pumpkin Patch 2008 but it didn't work out. At least I got a few pictures to compensate for driving down to the Art Center lawn in Palo Alto this morning. There were patches of about 20-50 pumpkin-esque or squash like glass sculptures all over the lawn. Long lines of people were waiting to get their chance to pick some.

B. Obama Walks the Walk - Helping Americans Impacted by Gustav

This article summarizes one of the main reasons I back Barack Obama. In fact, I'm one of the people he mentions as being on his e-mail and SMS contact lists. I believe in community service and helping out others in need and apparently so does he. We don't have to wait for him to finish being president to see him interacting with people who make less than $500k per year.

To see him doing this stuff before he can score political points shows that this is the real him. Not a put on. The fact that he's called on to do these events shows how much people respect him and think he can help. Here's a link to the blog post on the BarckObama.com site, asking for help, "Hurricane Gustav: How You Can Help".

clipped from www.dailykos.com Barack Obama, not only talking the talk, but WALKING THE WALK- UPDATE: McCain jokes about Katrina Sen. Obama gathered the pool outside after services at St. Luke's Lutheran Church. He told us that his camapaign plans to mobilize its huge e-mail list of supporters to volunteer or send money once the impact of Gustav becomes apparent and authorities know better what kind of help is needed. He said his campaign is coordinating with local authorities. "We can activate an e-mail list of a couple million people who want to give back," he said. "I think we can get tons of volunteers to travel down there if it becomes necessary." He even rolled up his sleeves and went to work in the part of Illinois that bordered Iowa to fill sandbags: And he did the same thing with Hurricane Katrina BEFORE he was a candidate for President. the following is from a diary I've written before about Katrina: Senator Obama visited New Orleans FIVE times since the Hurricane hit in 2005. McCain visited twice.

One Brick New Orleans Trip

One of my favorite do-gooder organizations, OneBrick, sent a crew down to help out in the Hurricane Katrina disaster zone in New Orleans. Things like this made me glad I joined the volunteer organization. Without a doubt, they are the best run, most volunteer friendly group I've been attached to.