---
title: "On Never Feeling Like You've Done Enough"
date: '2005-09-08T13:53:25-04:00'
permalink: /on-never-feeling-like-youve-done-enough/
tags:
    - life
    - pondering
---

I’ve given to the Red Cross, and to Catholic Charities USA.

I’ve given minor (mostly moral) support to a student here who has organized fundraising here on campus.

I’ve made an open offer of help to our administration, as they [admit and enroll](http://www.pomona.edu/adwr/admissions/Applying/NewOrleansApps.shtml) students from affected colleges and universities for the fall semester.

I’ve made several proposals to my department for things we might do, ranging from bringing a displaced writer to the college for a several-week residency to organizing next year’s literary series around New Orleans writers.

I’ve thought, and I’ve written, and I’ve tried to consider what else I can do.

But it’s hard not to feel like it’s such a drop in the bucket, so to speak, and that it can never be enough.