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Sep 27, 2003

"There is no such thing as generosity. No such thing at all. There is only the awareness of need and the natural impulse of the heart to address it. If you are hungry and your hand puts food in your mouth, you don't think of the hand as generous, do you? If people in front of you are hungry and you feed them, it's the same, isn't it?" --Poonjaji

Give of yourself -- shoe-shine. Just as he's done for more than two decades, Albert Lexie gets out of bed at 5 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, takes two buses to the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and makes his rounds -- offering shoe shines for 3 dollars. Since 1981 has given over $89,000 to the local hospital!