I spoke briefly at the LIONS MD19 Zone C-4 District Meeting last
Thursday about my effort to provide social media to charities and those being
charitable in the community by writing about them everyday this year to direct
traffic to their websites. That blog is called Kitsap Cares about Charity 365. I
also provide a dozen positive community Facebook pages for nonprofits to have a
voice. I have spoken to over 600 people this year in person and over 200,000
people online every week.
This
coming March 13-14th is the 67th LIONS District 19 Convention in Tacoma and I
have to give a 5 minute speech on what the Poulsbo LIONS has done this past year
in regard to service for the community. I am getting over a cold and have no
voice and I woke up thinking what if I don't have a VOICE on Friday. But I
fought back that fear as what I have to say is too important, I have to have a
VOICE!
I
thought about how even without a physical voice, on the internet I have a voice
that can speak loud and clear. I can speak for those that can't, those that are
hidden in the shadows, those that lost their way and need our
help.
I
thought about the speech Helen Keller gave at the 1925 LIONS convention in
Chicago that gave the LIONS the mandate to be "knights of the blind in the
crusade against darkness". Helen Keller always had a voice she just had to
figure out how to get it out. She could have given up being deaf and dumb as
they said in those days. I thought if Helen Keller can speak, than nothing
should stop me. I would rather record my computer speaking my speech or my
Smartphone reading it at the conference then to let something like losing my
voice keep me from having a VOICE. Don't let obstacles get in your way of what
you have to say. It didn't stop Helen Keller.
My
name is Ken Rury and I'm going to let it ROARrrr at the
convention.