In my recent newsletter, I suggested that we could find ways to ease suffering and be of service close to home. Here are some ideas that I came up with, but I'd like to hear from you. Please feel free to leave a comment with your ideas:

1. Volunteer at Nursing Home/Adult Day Care
2. Volunteer at Hospitals
3. Start a canned food drive for needy families
4. Start a diaper drive for needy families
5. Volunteer to read to visually challenged individuals
6. Volunteer for IRIS
7. Volunteer at your local library
8. Clean out your closets and donate gently used coats and clothing to shelters
9. Donate gently used business wear to organizations such as Dress for Success or Career Gear
10. Volunteer to clean up parks and rivers
11. Maintain one of the neighborhood flower beds
12. Start a neighborhood beautification task force
13. Volunteer at the Humane Society
14. Volunteer to do Animal Rescue Transport
15. Help an elderly neighbor or relative with yard work
16. Offer to do the grocery shopping for a home-bound individual
17. Offer to take an elderly relative’s pet for a walk
18. Offer to babysit one evening a month for an overworked young couple
19. Volunteer at your local house of worship
20. Volunteer to help clean or do clerical work for a local yoga studio

Don’t wait to be asked…when you see something that needs to be done, just do it!