My new hobby, and how to finance it
Quote: billryanGoing over my inventory and memorializing the months events.
Without the need for warm clothing, my budget bought more food and resulted in handing out over 160 bags. I worked out my first barter deal- sending three dozen blankets to a charity in Denver, where it is still winter.
My income declined this month as the monthly dividend dropped from $1.51 to $1.11, but I have some surplus funds to help alleviate this month's deficit.
I'm trying something new this week. The new bags have a couple single serving peanut butters, crackers, a banana, applesauce, a handful of grapes, a pair of socks, a toothbrush/toothpaste and some adult body wipes. Each bag has been reduced significantly, but I'll have more volume.
The shower truck begins this week, and I've started doing a weekly shift at a Catholic Workers' food kitchen, where I'm finding several like-minded people. In the volunteer's room, there is a photo with a Spanish language inscription that translates to something like this-
Those who don't think there is a point in helping the homeless have never allowed themselves to look into the eyes of a person who just received an unexpected act of kindness.
Another poster reminds us- Our job isn't to judge. Our job isn't to determine who is worthy of our help. Our tasks are simple: to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and begin to heal the hurt.
Heal them all, let God sort them out.
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And all this do-gooder feel tingly I'm the hero work reduced the homeless population by exactly, zero. It's not meant to reduce the homeless population it's meant to keep it going. It's a symbiotic relationship, they need each other desperately. There's no other explanation. Lol
