I just want to add one note and one addendum to this thread.
The note: I am glad it struck a chord with some; it struck one for me too.
Selfishness screams. Kindness whispers.
We must look close and listen hard to find the kindness or all we see and hear is selfishness.
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The note: I am glad it struck a chord with some; it struck one for me too.
Selfishness screams. Kindness whispers.
We must look close and listen hard to find the kindness or all we see and hear is selfishness.
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https://twitter.com/therealhoarse/status/1402799057794441217
The addendum:
That little Giving Garden - those little rows of raised beds tended by strangers - produces 70,000 pounds of fresh produce a year.
Since its founding, it has provided fresh, organic produce to over 200,000 families.
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That little Giving Garden - those little rows of raised beds tended by strangers - produces 70,000 pounds of fresh produce a year.
Since its founding, it has provided fresh, organic produce to over 200,000 families.
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Fresh produce is expensive.
Food-insecure families cannot afford the makings for a salad. They can’t afford a trip to the farmer’s market. They can’t afford local summer corn or fresh fruit.
When a food budget tightens to the point of choking, fresh produce is one of the cuts.
Food-insecure families cannot afford the makings for a salad. They can’t afford a trip to the farmer’s market. They can’t afford local summer corn or fresh fruit.
When a food budget tightens to the point of choking, fresh produce is one of the cuts.
That little Giving Garden, tended by volunteers in their off hours and own time, fills a place in food baskets that would have otherwise have gone unfilled.
In that one sunrise hour, that one volunteer in her laceless shoes and ripped jeans planted probably fifty seedlings.
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In that one sunrise hour, that one volunteer in her laceless shoes and ripped jeans planted probably fifty seedlings.
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And now others will help tend to them.
The aeedlings will grow to be high-yield plants.
The Giving Garden is a careful enterprise designed for its task: filling food pantry shelves.
Crop choices aren’t accidents.
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The aeedlings will grow to be high-yield plants.
The Giving Garden is a careful enterprise designed for its task: filling food pantry shelves.
Crop choices aren’t accidents.
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The Giving Garden is a loving farm tended by people who already have enough on behalf of people with too little.
May we all be volunteers in our own giving gardens.
May we all recognize the luxury of our surpluses and invest ourselves in lessening the shortages of others.
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May we all be volunteers in our own giving gardens.
May we all recognize the luxury of our surpluses and invest ourselves in lessening the shortages of others.
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