If you've been following our fund drive on page one, you saw that, just last week, readers came through with $9,540 to support the Real Change summer drive. Clearly, that rocks.
We still, however, remain far from our self-imposed hilltop of raising $160,000 in two months. So I ask myself, what would Sisyphus do? I turn to Albert Camus for solace and insight.
"Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Were our hero to find himself in our position, beset with daunting challenges, straining uphill 'neath the watchful sky, gazing toward the seemingly unattainable heights, he'd set himself to his task anew, put his shoulder to the boulder, and ... push.
He might also, like us, put out a fundraising mailing and make some phone calls.
Unlike Camus' Sisyphus, we are not alone in the universe. We see your support, and our hearts are filled. That hill doesn't scare us. Getting to the top just might take a bit longer than we thought.
A huge Real Change Thank You to those who have recently helped roll that rock: Anonymous, Stephen Sehlin, Justina Guyott, Peter Stekel, Virginia Younger, Diane Eberlein, Susan Eidenschink, Anita Matson, Joan Thomas, Diane Nilan, Carl Woestwin, William Voinot-Baron, Margaret Beaver, Brittany Millay, Jan & Jim Thomas, Diane and Eugene Stein, David & Patricia Rodgers, Marcy and Hellmut Golde, Gail Winberg, Anonymous, Stephen Bomkamp, Rosemary Calderon, James Douglas and Sasha Harmon, Matthew Kenney, Catherine Milione and James Holland, Fred Simons, Sharon Swift, Glenn and Anne Thureson, Jan Gleason, E. M. Slivka, Amy Bryant, Gina Jones, Nan McMurry, Diane Ste Marie, John Watson, Margaret Elder, W. and Shirley Vaughn, Bryant Milliman, and Alan Goodin.