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Guest Post by Kala

There is a moment in life when most individuals realize that they ache for something bigger than themselves. This is a realization that poverty and hardship takes place in the very country that we reside in.

We struggle to rebel against opposing beliefs; we battle against personal and political oppressors, but little is resolved. Though we battle, like many before us, against that which we disagree with, we know that we love our land. We are proud. We cannot give up or give in.

The lucky find that resolution can come with service, not out of resentment. The fortunate find that productivity and strength, in comparison to hatred and hostility, lends a healing hand. The timely understand that there is a solution; a task that one person can take on now.

One plus one soon becomes many and we begin to create a country that has just a little less hate and a little less sorrow. We are the lucky; the fortunate; the timely. We are AmeriCorps.

“…A vision softly creeping left its seed while I was sleeping and the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains…” ~Paul Simon

Kala is an AmeriCorps VISTA member who began serving in Maine in January 2008. Her work has had measurable positive impact on hundreds of agencies and organizations in Maine since that time.

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