I {heart} Cleveland

i just read the most inspiring, heart-warming wonderfulness about my beloved city, i must share, here it is, well, only part of it:

"..Then I hear people talk about how Cleveland is a dying city, how they need to move somewhere else to have a career, how there is nothing here for them. But I look and most of the time they aren't contributing anything, just waiting for someone to hand them something so they can take it. "

"Enough of this crap. If you want your surroundings to be better, then do something about it. Or get out of them. If you don't know where to start, then ask someone who might. And if you don't think you can do a good enough job to do it RIGHT, then find someone who is and offer to help. You have no idea how overloaded we are, how much we are trying to do, and how much just one day of help would put us ahead.

The country likes to laugh at us. Now it's up to us to decide who's going to get the last laugh.

Step up, or step aside."

I'm crying, tears running down my face, this is so wonderful. It makes me so happy, I don't know the person who wrote it (i mean, i know who wrote it, but i don't KNOW who wrote it...get me?) but I know that I'm not alone in my intense love and desire for action to make a difference in my beautiful CLE.

I knew there were others like me, who see the spirit and the spark of Cleveland.
Dearest CLE, i love love love you, you have bewitched me, body and soul.