Daily Donor

For the past week or so the school I teach at has been running a couple of collection programs for various charities.

One is being run through the restaurant chain Olive Garden to help its effort in funding cancer research called Pennies and Pasta for Patients, or something like that. The other is our school's effort to raise money to aid the work of The Red Cross for Haiti.

The collections are being handled through homerooms.

Each day a student comes over the PA during morning announcements to remind us of these charity efforts.

And each day I am amazed by the dedication and thoughtfulness of one of my homeroom girls because before the tardy bell rings, before the announcements even begin, she is up at the front of the room making her daily deposit of coins and cash.

I do not know the amount she has contributed to either of these causes, I doubt that it's been very much, but either way I have become so impressed by her constant consideration.

To watch her during these 30 seconds each morning is to see thoughtfullness is its most pure form.

This student knows nothing of her benefactors; she will never see the power of her 'purchase'. And yet there she is, each morning, giving what could easily remain hers to someone else.

Today I learned what blind generosity looks like.