Do Something

Holiday weekend breakdown...teens do bonfires; twenty-somethings booze and chillax; grown-ups do housework and yardwork. Parents didn't quite appreciate me wading in the kiddie pool with my mimosas while they planted. Driving to Home Depot with my dad this weekend. He asked, "So, El Prez...after one year working at The Office. Can you name me 3 accomplishments you've achieved?"

[silence]

Define 'accomplishment' and if it's beyond the reach of smiling for a 75 consecutive daily dials, then I gots nada.

But cheers to the the five finalists for the "DoSomething Award".

*Micaela Connery, 23, who started Unified Theater, a nationwide high school theatrical program that brings together youth with and without developmental and physical disabilities to act in theatrical productions

*Jacqueline Murekatete, 25, a Rwandan-American whose personal experience with genocide led her to form Jacqueline's Human Rights Corner in 2007 to educate people throughout the world about the history of genocide

*Wilfredo Perez Jr., 23, whose Public Health For Haitian Youth Program has trained 16 Haitian public health workers and treated 1,200 individual patients for everything from tuberculosis to malaria

*Jessica Posner, 23, founder of The Kibera School for Girls and Shining Hope Community Center, providing education and social services to 5,700 residents of Kibera, Nairobi

*Mark Rembrandt, 25, who's transforming his hometown of Wilmington, Ohio, into the nation’s first Green Enterprise Zone through Energize Clinton County, a community development organization.

The cube is just a hub for creativity. Keeping it securely sealed.