I had this brainstorm this morning, I asked our friend Sarah Kelly, a graphic artist, if she could design some tasteful bumper stickers for the Army Of Good. Just the name “Army Of Good” on a field of blue or red. She’s working on it. I want to thank you for all of the support you have given me and many other people and also provide a material token of this group and the incredible work it is doing.

I have to figure out the cost and mailing and other details but i wanted to give you all a heads up. My thinking is to mail one to any member of the AOG who asks. I don’t really know precisely how many of you are out there or how much this will cost, so please don’t send me any messages or requests just now.

I’d like for the bumper sticker to be free to anyone who asks for one or wants one.  When the time comes, people can order one through my post office box, or via e-mail. I don’t wish to get swamped by this project, but it seems like a good thing to do.

I’ll let you know how it goes. Please don’t e-mail or send any requests now, they will be lost. I’d love to think of these stickers driving around America. Perhaps the idea of doing good will become viral one day. I would love to have one on my car.

So I’m checking. This might be too expensive right now, or not feasible, either way, I’ll let you know.

Whenever I see Ali’s good face, I think of the good we are doing, he is a major part of this work.

Saturday, he is bringing some of the refugee soccer kids to Cambridge to say hello to Ed Gulley, whose farm they visited last summer. It’s a generous and thoughtful gesture, and I’m planning to give them a good and full day – lunch, a hike in the woods , a visit to Battenkill Books, and a soccer surprise – color sweatbands for soccer practice.

I wrote about Saad yesterday, he moved into his new apartment today, thanks to your help with the security deposit. I’m going to see him on Tuesday to bring him a month’s load of groceries. I hope to support him in small but meaningful ways throughout the next few months as he builds his new life in America.

Saad lost everything in Iraq, is sick and without his family, a wife and eight children, who are unlikely ever to be able to come to America under the current administration. Saad, who worked for the U.S. Embassy during the Iraq war, was targeted by religious extremists and had to flee to a U.N. refugee camp, and then to America.

Yesterday, the Army Of Good gave Saad $400 for a security deposit on an apartment in a senior citizen building in Albany. It is the first apartment of his own in the year that he has been in America.

He has been struggling ever since. Ali and I are determined to help him, your contributions to that work are much appreciated. You can send them to the Gus Fund, c/o Jon Katz, P.O. Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816. or via Paypal, [email protected].

Thanks for your contributions which began to come in last night. I will keep a close eye on Saad, we will work with him over time until he is settled and comfortable and  has what he needs. I’ll share this work every step of the way.