Good job, Adam. I think we need another thread about spitting out perfectly good wine though.
I have been thinking about tithing to food banks or just keeping an eye out for people to share with beyond the normal “coping” pretty well people we normally run with. I think Desmond or maybe Paramount, kind of suggested the same thing on a thread.
We don’t have a lot either. But it takes someone to care right?Due to divorce death and parental alcoholism, I spent days as a child, doing lots of things to fill my belly and help my siblings do the same, like gleaning food from trees in private yards and local orchards,Selling fish I caught that my dad wouldn’t cook or let us cook, mowing lawns, making “tortillas” with flour and water to get to the next school lunch, hanging out with kids more than I would have because I was able to get something to eat. I did people’s homework for food. My brothers and sisters did similar or worse things.
Even if this stuff doesn’t happen sans serious family dysfunction,as many like to point out, those kids need to eat not have intermittent food punishment. Plus some really good people will be tiptoeing around the cracks after years dedicated to lower income but basically socially productive lifestyles.It amazes me that many of the “social progressives” are some of the most judgmental and hateful at times like this.
It’s different this time. I have an elderly friend who grew up in the house his dad built in Leucadia around a hundred years ago. He was entering adolescence during the depression(kind of like our kids). He told me that during the depression poor people partially lived on seafood and family grown produce, but now neither is really accessible in many environments today.Lots of things have changed.He said seafood was poor people’s food for decades of his life.
The cities and counties won’t let you or me let someone live in a trailer on private property, especially without churning a boat load of work and fees so that they can live well, no matter how bad things are.(although if someone I know who is not destructive, or has kids, is facing homelessness or a very hard life in a shelter, I will fight the despots and build a tent city and home school if needed).
You know I have always been O.K. with “bring it on” because I thought that our society needed some “values and priorities” work, but also have always said to have compassion when we get to the lows.Thanks for taking the second part of that stance too.
