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Apr 30, 2006
"I see your life as already artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art." --Toni Morrison
$30,000 Dumpster Dive
Artist Michael Daube was rummaging through a dumpster near his Jersey City loft, looking for sculpture materials, when he came across a David Hockney drawing worth $30,000! The son of a steel worker and a housewife, neither a high school graduate, Michael took off for India. While working at Mother Teresa's mission in Calcutta, he asked her how he might practice compassion $18,000 richer. She suggested opening a school in the country's poorest, most heavily tribal state, rural Orissa. What started then is now Citta: a nonprofit serving marginalized communities with schools, hospitals, orphanages and centers in Mexico, Nepal, and India.
BE THE CHANGE
Ever find an unexpected $5 note in your jacket pocket? The next time you find an unexpected gift, use a part of it for serving others.
