,…… give showers to the hot, stinky people. Wait, I don’t remember reading that last one anywhere. But that is what we did yesterday and today at the Rebuild Center. Well, okay, we didn’t give them showers but we made it possible for them to take showers – 103 of them. (I learnt that your do not want to stand downwind from a person using spray deodorant.) Others of us made it possible for people to make phone call anywhere in the US. We helped serve lunch, Folded towels, Handed out razors and combs, Sweated like little pigs in 100+ temps. (Do pigs really sweat? – I don’t remember that from my life on the farm – was that just last year?)
But all is well!
I can say that because I’m not homeless, or living on the streets or suffering from mental illness. It is interesting to cross paths with people who are. Makes you appreciate what you have. Makes you wonder why you have, and they have not. Makes you wonder how they cope with their situations and if you could do the same. Makes you wonder about their stories and how they got to where they are. Makes you wonder if the government couldn’t do more to help out such people. Makes you wonder about the young adult volunteers who show up every day to serve these people. Makes you wonder about the adults who show up year after year to serve these people. Makes you wonder about hurricanes and natural disasters that put people in this situation or drive them over the edge. Just makes you wonder….
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