Across the Miles

Something positive to end the week....


G, M and their 3 kids who lived in a tent for 6 months, finally moved into a house in their little OR town, right before Thanksgiving and just in time to escape the brutal storms that pummelled the west coast (where I was blissfully camping for about a week right before the storms).


I had received an email from a woman, R, in the Chicago area who had lived in her car for a while, some of us call that HOMELESS. She does too. HUD, well that's another story....


She wanted to do something nice at the holiday time, not my favorite time, but I'll get over it. I connected her with J, the social worker who pushed to get the above-mentioned family into a real house (HUD considers their tent housing). J and R exchanged emails and VIOLA! The family is getting lots of good gifts from R, in addition to the scads of essentials and extras that J and her colleagues scouted up.


It was nice to stand back and let it happen. Glad to hear that people are still motivated to do good. Sometimes that gets lost in the shuffle of riches, greed, and bureaucratic insanity, like HUD's insistence that families in motels aren't homeless.


Seems to me that we forget that good overpowers the evil we see every time we turn around. It's good to remember the positive energy that keeps this world spinning in the right direction....