National Day Of Service Honors MLK's Spirit On His Day

January 21, 2013 is an interesting date this year as the inauguration of President Obama's second term falls on the same day as the legal public holiday to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday which is Saturday the 19th. MLK believed in service to the community.

“Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.” — Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Four years ago, on President Obama's first inauguration, he started a tradition of honoring King's passion with a day of Service to support his belief that service 'should be a lifelong commitment—whether it's at the school, community, city, state, or national level.' The first family asks that everyone participate on MLK day in hours of service to their community, and they make it easy to do so with a National Day of Service web site where you can search for opportunities to help. These are event organized just for this day where men and women can give their time to help in a variety of ways - seven ways in fact. They organize events into categories of Health, Education, Community Resilience, Economic Development, Veterans and military families, Faith, and Environment.

This year King's actual birthday falls on a Saturday so it should be easier than a weekday for people to get involved.

You can search here for events by zip code. I plan on doing one of these, but it would be great to get a group of Well-Met Men together to show up together in force. If interested, contact me at kevin@wellmetman.com. I am open to choosing one that the majority agree on, otherwise I will pick it out myself as we get closer.

Five O'Clock Steakhouse's The Milwaukee Man Dinner Benefits Milwaukee Rescue Mission

On Friday, September 11 2015 at 6pm, Milwaukee's iconic Five O'Clock Steakhouse will host the first annual Milwaukee Man Dinner - Beef, Bourbon & Brandy Benefit. A portion of the night's proceeds will directly benefit the Milwaukee Rescue Mission "Safe Harbor" Program ,providing refuge and hope for local men seeking to transform their lives through emergency assistance, shelter, counseling, education & job resources.

City Lights Cans Water. Why its better than bottles.

You may have seen the new trend for packaged water with brands like Liquid Death. Now a local brewery, City Lights Brewery , is getting in on the act. Except its not just an act, its not some fad, there are reasons to can vs. bottle water. Good reasons.

Make Men's Health Month About You

The month of November is (one of the) Men's Health Month(s), popularized by the Movember movement. (June is another recognized annual event but since it is November now, November it is.) It's a great foundation, it has been successful and is highly rated for its impact. But, one thing I see with the movement is that while they speak about men's health to the participants, I feel the participants themselves promote it outwardly rather than inward, at them. I personally fell victim to that selfsame issue, but no longer. As of this November, I am taking care of myself.

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