{"id":103,"date":"2012-10-23T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.impact-international.net\/blog\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2012-12-02T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T14:20:11","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.impact-international.net\/blog\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry’s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terry\u2019s Blog About Terry\u2019s Blogs<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was in college, our committee put flyers under the door to ask students if there were too many flyers coming under their door.\u00a0 In Montgomery County, Maryland and other jurisdictions, we see studies on whether there ought to be studies.\u00a0 So I\u2019m going to take license and make this my one and only blog on future blogs \u2013 so the early readers of \u201cTerry\u2019s Blog\u201d and “Persons and Programs of Impact\u201d know our intent, however well or poor that is implemented.\u00a0 After all, what will you do with your extra time now that you won\u2019t see the same political commercial for the 25th<\/sup> time in one day, or get those calls ID\u2019d as \u201c800 Service\u201d or \u201cUnknown Caller\u201d are really Karl Rove\u2019s boys and girls whose profile on you includes what color underwear you are wearing that day, or get your color brochure from some harmless-sounding source such as \u201cIndependent People for Everything Good\u201d that says the opposing candidate planned to mug your grandmother for a Coca-Cola once he gets into office because he forgot to do it last time.<\/p>\n

Terry\u2019s Blog, in two doses per week, will cover a wide array of topics making an impact on our society \u2013 trends, people, values, and public policy, and with some wonderfully disproportionate attention to youth, who are our future in everything, and drugs and crime, topics that always reveal the worst and best in the soul of America.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Terry\u2019s blog will bring to light some of the forgotten people and underlying forces and suggest some innovative solutions that others may not address because they are politically incorrect or seem too idealistic, such as “Who’s Paying for Your Public Benefits,” or “Why Aren’t Our Leaders Talking About the Poor?” or “Breaking the Link Between Gangs, Guns, and Drugs.” Given the wide variance of beliefs in our initial readership, and my history of not adhering to all things called either liberal or conservative, there will be some of these blogs with which you will vigorously disagree \u2013 I hope that piques your interest.\u00a0 What\u2019s said, will it undercut any future aspirations for elective office because it is too blunt \u2013 maybe, but new ideas are the children who will be the adult public policy, and that is more important. You will have your opportunity to comment on these blogs.\u00a0 I hope you will.\u00a0 We\u2019ll all learn more from your insightful comments.<\/p>\n

New \u201cPersons and Programs of Impact\u201d will appear on our website each month. As for \u201cPersons of Impact,\u201d in thirty years of non-profit work, one thing I learned was the underestimated value of those who shouldered their leadership tasks day-after-day, year-after-year, in effect bringing up the next generations of Americans \u2013 the local anointed and appointed leaders, the pastors and police officers, the small businessmen and youth workers in small towns.\u00a0 So we\u2019ll focus on these.\u00a0 Second, I have been honored for many years to know those who have served our country, but beyond the service that I believe we all owe thanks to living in a country that is the best combination of freedom and opportunity in the world, there are those who cannot be successful but for the physical and moral courage they must summon up every day \u2013 the armed services men and women in harm\u2019s way, the police officers, those working with gang members, the mentally ill, and the dying.\u00a0 \u201cPersons of Impact\u201d are the inspiration and model we seek to spread.<\/p>\n

While we hear so much every day about the major issues of unemployment, war, the deficit, and violence, most Americans know almost exclusively about the alternative solutions to issues that affect them directly, and they know these only generally.\u00a0 \u201cPrograms of Impact\u201d will focus on the innovative and proven models and strategies that address these issues and should get a\u00a0wider look, including programs in health care, employment, crime and gang prevention, the environment, and religion.<\/p>\n

If you are reading this blog you are among the first with such an opportunity \u2013 one of my college professors called a test an opportunity!\u00a0 You can always unsubscribe, but I ask if you would open your email, at least in the beginning, because, I promise, I will never try to reach you under the \u201c800 Service\u201d or \u201cUnknown Number.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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