One thing some people don't quite seem to understand about America is that, by and large, when Americans see a need, volunteers from around the country quietly pitch in. Even after the news cameras go home. (Sometimes especially after the news cameras go home.) And without going through the government. Just because.
Rebuild Lakeshore is a website of the Lakeshore Baptist Church of Lakeshore, Mississippi, a community hit with the full force of Hurricane Katrina. The site is full of story after story of not only community members helping one another out, but of total strangers showing up to do hard and often-dirty work of rebuilding. Just check out the teams that showed up just in February.
Is this a great country, or what?
They still need a lot of help down there, in-person and otherwise. Check out the website for more info.
Oh, and don't miss the post on 50 Lessons From Mississippi, written by a young woman named Sarah Ascol after she did a stint of volunteer work in a kitchen set up to feed volunteers. Some of it's insightful. Some of it's laugh out loud funny, too. How can you not love a post that includes such gems as "45) Singing together gets the job done faster - unless you stop to dance" and "30) Soap bubbles in your hair works almost like hairspray" and "22) Nine young adults are really no match for 51 kids full of candy-corn" and "14) Even teenage boys get blue when they miss their Moms"?
hat tip: Cindy Swanson
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
-
I read Trollope’s second Palliser novel, Phineas Finn, about an Irish
Member of Parliament and his adventures in London, both romantic and
political, back ...
3 weeks ago
