Dana Butler, Shea Center Executive Director

What makes a 13-year-old girl, volunteer her time to walk next to a horse ridden by a child with disabilities? What makes a 14-year-old girl offer six months worth of her own, hard earned babysitting money, to help pay for a rider’s tuition for therapy?

“It’s love in action,” says Dana Butler, Executive Director of The J. F. Shea Center for Therapeutic Riding.

The news today is filled with talk of war, recession, natural disasters and crime. Our educational system is in trouble, global warming is getting worse, people are worried about the future. In trying times it’s easy to forget the power of love … until you visit The Shea Center.

Your kindergarten teacher taught you to play in the sandbox. Your football coach assigned you a buddy during drills. Your boss preached about it at the last sales meeting. It's teamwork. It's the synergistic magic that happens when all parts come together to create something that is greater than their sum. Now it's your turn to create it. But how? Choosing the right people for a project is the key to success. Apply these 5 steps and you'll create teams that get the job done right!

Working with the men and women who have made this world a better place for so many of us is one of the most rewarding experiences a person could ever have. Some call them elderly, some call them seniors; I call them the people with the wisdom and real life experiences. I even sometimes call them mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, and great grand-parents.

Becoming elder in society does not change one's ability to love, to desire companionship, to feel needed, to want to be apart of the world in which we all live. Unfortunately sometimes others see the vulnerabilities of another human being as a weakness to be preyed upon.

Spending the day as a pool reporter following Senator John McCain as he visited locations in Orange County was as enlightening as it was exhausting. It began early in the morning, included stops in the blistering California sun and ended with McCain addressing a group of volunteers at a phone bank for the Republican party. While reporters were given leave, McCain went on to prepare for his participation in the civil forum at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA. Politics aside, it takes a strong individual to keep this grueling pace day in and day out.

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