Angel Lane

Maybe it's a slick PR campaign. Maybe it's egotistical.  But perhaps, maybe it's human goodness. It's a sense of charity.  An example of powerful stewardship.

Oprah rocks.  With her Angel Lane project to build homes for the displaced by Katrina in Houston, Texas, she has done more publicly than the US govt. ever did.  She rocks as a non-profit/profit organization -- all by herself!  Really an inspiration of how one person really does a lot of good.  The project has built 50 homes from the ground up for selected survivors and Oprah has used $10 million of her own money for the endeavor, along with partnerships with Habitat for Humanity, other charitable organizations and corporate and individual sponsorships.

It's funny, during an interview segment, I saw that one of the volunteers was none other than Hai Ton, a fellow Penn dude.  Props to all the volunteers who made it happen.  And props to all the other workers for good, in public and in private.

Makes me almost giddy thinking about the amount of good that money (money! that despised object) can do. Perhaps working for it is not such a bad idea.