One 1/2 container of Acryllic White Paint for $19.10 is all that stands between the Bishop Maginn Mural Mob and some beautiful new murals for the school and the city around it.

The solitary remaining paint can has a cold name – Aroma 424807 Acrylic Essential Paint, 1/2 gallon white – but is headed for great things.

I imagine by the time you read this, the paint can will be gone, and the only thing left on Wish List will be gift cards for $10 and $25. Please buy one if you can.

The Mural Mob is just getting started, and that’s why I’m making such a fuss about one jug of paint.

The murals are my idea of a worthy cause and I hope to support the Mob, along with the Army Of Good. Art speaks when people can’t.

This group of mostly young refugees and inner-city kids from the poorer neighborhoods of Albany are setting out to brighten their world. While so many people argue and complain, they are out there, doing it.

They are fortunate to be in a school that is solidly behind them.

If you wish to help this project, you can buy the can of paint of course, or send me some contributions to make sure they have enough paint and supplies for their work. They don’t need much.

You can contribute via Paypal, [email protected] or by check, Jon Katz, Mural Mob, P.O. Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816.

My sister in do-gooding, Sue Silverstein, is right behind these kids, encouraging them and cheering them on. She asked for help in getting the paint.

When I got up at 5 a.m. this morning, that was the only item left on the new Bishop Maginn Amazon Wish List.

The dozen books for a government class and four other cans of paint had sold overnight, despite some Amazon glitches with mobile phone links to the site.

Thanks. (I think the link is working now.)

You might think I’m making a huge fuss over a single can of paint, but this is much bigger than a can of paint. It’s about our souls and the souls of our country.

I admit to having fallen in love with the new Mural Mob in Sue Silverstein’s Art Class At Bishop Maginn. It touches me in a particular way.

The school may have a small budget but it has a huge heart. Principal Mike Tolan presides over a very special kingdom.

Love grows there.

It’s a wonderful idea, brilliant in my mind.

The institutional walls of the high school are a bit dull and monotonous and several colleges and other institutions are interested in having the art class come up with some mural designs for them.

What a wonderful spur for the creativity of these young people, they have seen the ugliest part of humanity, now they are carrying out the best part.

The first task of the Mural Mob is brightening up the school’s cafeteria (above.) The school can use it.

I fought back the temptation to buy the last can of paint myself. But Julie is right, everyone who wants a chance to support the Mural Mob should have a chance.

“Share the joy,” messaged Julie from Michigan early this morning. Okay, people are always complaining the Wish Lists are sold out before they get there. The solitary white paint jug looks lonely.

The dozen used books Humanity Teacher Dr. John Harden asked for were sold out in minutes.

This all began when a soft-spoken and much loved Vietnamese Exchange Student named Thang Trinh won a city-wide contest sponsored by the Albany College Of Pharmacy to paint a mural for their lobby.

Trinh’s mural was called “Children Of Peace.” A good message for now.

The college has hired professional painters to copy Trinh’s mural and show it to their busy world. The students are helping by tracing the mural for the college.

I am grateful for the opportunity to know these children and to support this loving school, an island in a sea of struggling educational institutions across America.

The school does not have the funds to send everybody to Harvard or Stamford, but they perform miracles every day, giving needy and vulnerable children a safe place to learn and adjust to the often brutal traumas in their lives.

Thanks for helping me do this, I think it is truly the Lord’s work. And good painting, Aroma 424807. You’re going places.