Thursday, December 30, 2004
Giving
It seems to me somehow more important this year to say who I've chosen to give to.
My newest: Doctors Without Borders for tsunami relief. A worthy organization even in times of relative stability. The American incarnation of this international presence is chaired by Richard Rockefeller, a doctor with an unusually encompassing view of his profession, a leukemia patient, a practicing Buddhist, and a Rockefeller.
I also give to the American Civil Liberties Union to protect my rights embodied in the U.S. Constitution and to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to protect those same rights in the technosphere.
I am a regular donor to The Woods Hole Research Center, one of the foremost policy-oriented environmental research organizations. When you hear about the global carbon budget or dwindling rain forests or the melting of the polar ice caps, WHRC research helped us to become aware of these issues, their magnitude and their importance.
I give to the Marine Biological Laboratory in memory of my father and to the Woods Hole School (which is in custody of the Woods Hole Community Association, Box 327, Woods Hole MA 02543, no Web site) in memory of my mother -- my parents did their most meaningful work in these institutions. And I give to the Woods Hole Public Radio Station and to the 300 Committee, which buys land in and near Woods Hole for open space. I grew up in Woods Hole and consider it home.
I am so incredibly fortunate, and mostly it is an accident. To adapt a quote from a great movie, "I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that [these gestures] don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
My newest: Doctors Without Borders for tsunami relief. A worthy organization even in times of relative stability. The American incarnation of this international presence is chaired by Richard Rockefeller, a doctor with an unusually encompassing view of his profession, a leukemia patient, a practicing Buddhist, and a Rockefeller.
I also give to the American Civil Liberties Union to protect my rights embodied in the U.S. Constitution and to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to protect those same rights in the technosphere.
I am a regular donor to The Woods Hole Research Center, one of the foremost policy-oriented environmental research organizations. When you hear about the global carbon budget or dwindling rain forests or the melting of the polar ice caps, WHRC research helped us to become aware of these issues, their magnitude and their importance.
I give to the Marine Biological Laboratory in memory of my father and to the Woods Hole School (which is in custody of the Woods Hole Community Association, Box 327, Woods Hole MA 02543, no Web site) in memory of my mother -- my parents did their most meaningful work in these institutions. And I give to the Woods Hole Public Radio Station and to the 300 Committee, which buys land in and near Woods Hole for open space. I grew up in Woods Hole and consider it home.
I am so incredibly fortunate, and mostly it is an accident. To adapt a quote from a great movie, "I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that [these gestures] don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
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