Howard Schultz

I WAS MEETING Becky at the library today.
She was taking Anders and Eve there during my lunch break.
Of course I somehow missed her.
It always works like that.
We live in this tiny town
and there is no way to miss each other.
But somehow we do.
I guess part of that is my fault for not owning a cell phone.
Ahh.

Well, while I was waiting for her and the kids
I sat near the front door where there is floor to ceiling windows overlooking our busy main street.
I ate an egg salad sandwich and picked up a magazine: FORBES
It had Howard Shultz on it.
He’s the CEO of Starbucks.
The issue was all about Billionaires.
Shultz was tormented about making his company a dynamic force for social change.

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He has one of the biggest and most profitable companies the world has ever known.
He is responsible for thousands and thousands of people, 
who live in the largest and most successful countries in the world.

​He wants to change the world.
At the end of the day
he isn’t making the change he wants to see.
He wants to change the world.

Mary Oliver says:
There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled.
Like, telling someone you love them.
Or giving your money away, all of it.

Your heart is beating, isn’t it?
You’re not in chains, are you?
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There’s nothing more pathetic than caution
When headlong might save a life,
Even, possibly, your own.

There is a world in need, Howard.
EkJ