"Obama's Call to Change: What is Everyone Waiting For?"

[Megan McCafferty]

For the past week, I've been asking myself, "What's next?" This New York Times editorial by Lawrence Downes provides a perfect answer. In short:

"All you phone-bank callers and door-to-door volunteers, you envelope stuffers and canvassers, who worked countless hours and now may have a little time and energy left over: Help homeless and hungry people.

Work for an environmental organization, a food pantry or a community garden, or all three. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will soon be flooding colleges on the new G.I. Bill, many of them wary and troubled by traumas overseas, unready for the shock of immersion. Some local cause is struggling even now. Find it and pitch in. "

(Read the whole editorial here.)