If you don’t focus, everything is blurry

Another issue ICPJ needs to address is how much we should focus.

I learned from splitting wood that you need to put your effort into one thing at a time if you’re going to succeed.

Right now we’re putting our effort into seven things.

Do we have enough focus to split any of them open?

It’s a thorny issue. I’m not sure our Hunger volunteers would all join up on our health care campaign if we decided to narrow our focus. We’d likely loose some people.

On the other hand, I’m not sure if one-seventh effort will ever be enough to get our Latin America Task Force to get Rep. Dingell to stop supporting the SOA.

So do we narrow our focus, or do support efforts toward justice no matter how diffuse we may be?

Do we split one piece of wood? Or do we let 100 flowers bloom?