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San Jose Mercury News put out a call to action today with their article entitled

“Flaws In System Take Human Face”, by Joe Rodriguez. Now Joe’s article does aim to pull on the old emotional heartstrings 

http://www.mercurynews.com/joerodriguez

I find the timing of this article fitting in two ways.

The holidays are biting at our heels; it is a time we should think about others rather than ourselves.  I guess a sort of insurance of making sure my name pops up on the “Nice List” before I make those self proclaimed affrimations for the new year.

Ironically, this has been on my mind most recently when in starting the Almaden Valley Moms Group last week.  I want to be connected to a group that’s compassionate and willing to teach their children the art of giving selflessly.  Not more than two days after posting an idea about my “Heat Some Feet” - sock drive on Meetups.com, Joe’s article is center stage in Monday’s Valley section of the San jose Mercury newspaper and hits it right to home about how many homeless fall through the cracks when it comes to our over-burdend system of dealing with the homeless in San Jose.  

Now my life has not been directly in contact with such individuals living on the streets, but that’s about to change.

I thought it might help that each time the Almaden Valley Mom’s group gets together they could bring a pair (or more) of clean unused socks with them to donate to the cause of “Heat Some Feet” this winter.  On or around Dec. 20th, 2007 - I will go out and hand out the collection of new socks to several of the homeless shelters here in San Jose. If you’d like to participate in anyway, contact me - let’s Heat Some Feet this winter, for I am sure it is going to be a chilly one.