Volunteered at homeless kitchen again
This time, I got the job of washing pots and pans, and washing the inside of two refrigerators, scraping crud.
It was so beautiful to be able to help with cleanup.
By being off in a corner with a bucket of hot, soapy water, a sponge and a wet towel, I was able to see things around me in a way I wouldn’t have had I been in the center of the kitchen cutting up food with the other volunteers.
Know what I saw?
The media is only now recognizing that the US economy is in the pits. But there are many, many Americans way below Main Street. For them, there is no oppressively unfolding recession. They’re poor. They don’t have home, mortgages, credit cards. They don’t know where their next meal is coming from. They have lost jobs, lost homes.
Now they are being joined by the first round of those destroyed by the profit-making focus of our business systems, that put multi-million dollar incomes and bonuses before people.
There is a new slide into poverty that is a trickle but will be a huge wave in the next year. You can see it at the soup kitchen. Even while you’re washing the donated Halloween sugar crumbs off the bottom of a refrigerator.
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