Writing is Also Important

The funny thing when you write about something, is that sometimes it goes full circle and smack you right on the back of your head. This time around, though, I'm actually grateful for the smack for it made me think, and prompted me to act.

Remember my post Why Reading is Important for Doing? Today I stumbled on an article titled "Read and Write for a Better Integration". No, it wasn't about source code integration but social integration, telling how words communicate daily anecdotes, news from the world as well as everybody's rights and obligations. Lacking the power to decode them, many are marginalized and feeling the pain of exclusion.

The article was published in the September issue of L'itineraire (French), Montreal's street journal. A street journal is mostly prepared, distributed and sold by homeless people as a means to re-empower themselves, helping them to regain their dignity and hopefully reintegrate society.

I've always respected and admired the fantastic and important job that L'itineraire is doing, encouraging their vendors by buying an issue whenever I meet one. Now for making me think in a whole different light about what I've wrote, I've decided, in the spirit of the Celebrity Poker Show, to make this journal my own Favorite Charity.

More on that later...