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Socks for beggar -
Can be sugar for the soul.
“You really saw me.”
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Working in the Emergency room on the RoseBud reservation in South Dakota one of my saddest observations was the number of homeless loosing toes and often feet related to living cold and wet through the harsh winters in that clime. Many would come into the ER just to get out of the cold and wet for one night. Yes, these were usually people habitually taking drugs and / or alcohol – and it was for this reason many people in the society would turn their backs. In the ER our job was getting them sober – drying them off – feeding them one meal and sending them out again unless a deeper need was found physiologically. There was no system to really help these dear ones. The staff was already exhausted and overworked from dealing with car accidents, beatings and deathly ill babies. (The Rosebud was and probably is still the busiest emergency room in South Dakota.) This was probably typical of any number of emergency rooms across America. Though the issue of foot loss is likely more prevalent in the regions with extremes of weather.
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Further ruminating:
When I last lived in Santa Barbara (i left in 2001 and then moved back to town in 2016) I used to eat out on Lower State Street often. The restaurants tended to give too much food and so I would get a ‘to-go’ container along with a fork and napkin - - then as I walked the streets I would find a person who looked hungry and offer them the rest of the meal. This was a small thing, but it was what I could do then.
When I worked hospice home care on the gulf coast of Florida --- I carried bottles of water, nuts and fruit in the car to give to the street people who I saw on so many street corners as I passed them while going to and from patient homes ….
Maybe I will start carrying SOCKS and small packets of HANDIWIPES to clean feet to hand out ... now … whereas there is not the extreme cold here – yet it is difficult to keep clean and dry when living on the street. It is a small thing – however – it is concrete and practical – it is a start.
If all of us start looking at and enacting small ways to help the people – perhaps it can morph into big help – there are after all some whose small gift is organizing and inspiring. Together the small can grow to substantial.
How can you help?
It does not need to be 'something big and glorious'.
What can become your little helping niche?
When I last lived in Santa Barbara (i left in 2001 and then moved back to town in 2016) I used to eat out on Lower State Street often. The restaurants tended to give too much food and so I would get a ‘to-go’ container along with a fork and napkin - - then as I walked the streets I would find a person who looked hungry and offer them the rest of the meal. This was a small thing, but it was what I could do then.
When I worked hospice home care on the gulf coast of Florida --- I carried bottles of water, nuts and fruit in the car to give to the street people who I saw on so many street corners as I passed them while going to and from patient homes ….
Maybe I will start carrying SOCKS and small packets of HANDIWIPES to clean feet to hand out ... now … whereas there is not the extreme cold here – yet it is difficult to keep clean and dry when living on the street. It is a small thing – however – it is concrete and practical – it is a start.
If all of us start looking at and enacting small ways to help the people – perhaps it can morph into big help – there are after all some whose small gift is organizing and inspiring. Together the small can grow to substantial.
How can you help?
It does not need to be 'something big and glorious'.
What can become your little helping niche?
Now - just do it - do not over think it - just do it.
🌸 ❤️ ☕️ 🥗 ☕️ ❤️ 🌸“The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.”
Mark Twain
🌸 ❤️ ☕️ 🥗 ☕️ ❤️ 🌸“Brotherhood is better understood by example than precept.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
🌸 ❤️ ☕️ 🥗 ☕️ ❤️ 🌸Matthew 25:35
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat:
I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me in...”
🌸 ❤️ ☕️ 🥗 ☕️ ❤️ 🌸أَحَبُّ النَّاسِ إِلَى اللَّهِ أَنْفَعُهُمْ لِلنَّاسِ
The people most beloved to Allah are those who are most beneficial to the people.
Source: Mu’jam Al-Awsat 6192, Grade: Sahih
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The last time a global survey was attempted – by the United Nations in 2005 – an estimated 100 million people were homeless worldwide. As many as 1.6 billion people lacked adequate housing (Habitat, 2015). Here is perhaps a better list:
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How Finland is diminishing homelessness.
https://www.weforum.org/
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The bottom of a sleeping man's feet on a sidewalk in Bangkok, Thailand
Photography by Bill Winters
https://www.flickr.com/
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