Dream Ball on Saturday … Choose to Dance
I heard a song while driving out in the California wilds that I was sure I would remember when I got back home. Here I am home again with only a few whiffs of verse remaining in my head. It was about dancing. Dancing in the sense of not sitting on the sidelines but stepping in and embracing life’s music, finding the rhythm and moving with it.
Times are hard and getting harder for the people our organization provides for. Once that job slides out of reach there isn’t much left on the horizon to reach for. Many are desperate to keep their homes, to pay their utilities and to put food on their tables. People well able to take care of themselves a few months ago are shaking their heads, hanging their heads now.
We are all counting on the stimulus package to put a little hope back in the economy. If we can only create jobs. If we can only pay people a little more unemployment benefit for a little longer time. If we can only give out more tax credits. If we can only hold on long enough for the world as we knew it to right itself.
We are a people of hope and faith and hard work. Bad is doing to have to get a lot worse before we see no light at the end of the tunnel. We believe in ourselves and we believe in our country. Those of us who have jobs, benefits, decent paychecks will do all we can to make opportunities for neighbors who are suffering. We will share what we have and open doors when we can. We will step onto the dance floor and feel the music of a better life to come and move to the music of hope.
As the Obamas did at the inaugural balls, we invite you to do on February 21st. Come to the Dream Ball and dance in celebration of Second Harvest Food Bank’s 25 years of service to this community. Help celebrate the collective achievement of distributing 45 million pounds of food to people in need in eight Indiana counties. Move to the music of hope and the dream of a better tomorrow.
The official deadline has passed to register but if you give us a call on Monday at 287-8698 ext 100 Tiffany Jones will see what she can do to get you a place at a table. It is always a lovely evening and the somber times will not change that. The Dream Ball is held at the Paramount Theatre ballroom in downtown Anderson. We wear our best duds, enjoy dinner together, dance and allow ourselves to be persuaded to exchange generous amounts of money for scores of auctions items. Our hearts and minds will be easily swayed this year in light of the increasing need. Every dollar we part with means six meals for someone who is losing the struggle to make ends meet.