semi-daily journal of my thoughts and feelings(hopefully) On my life living in the Rocky Mountains...
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| rkymtnmusings semi-daily journal of my thoughts and feelings(hopefully) On my life living in the Rocky Mountains... .
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3/19/2005 I would like to talk now about famine. This has been on the edges of my mind for a long time now, and an article in Time magazine: http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1034738,00.html set me off in a bad sort of way...the bad sort of way is that, like so many ...millions!!!... of people ( God forgive us...) I realize that I have ignored severe poverty... I am fifty-three years old, am married for twenty years, have five children (shame on us-a combination of Roman Cathology and fertility-)..I have a job that I love, with a boss (that is the owner) that I have a love/hate relationship with... this is my opinion, and I have been known to be wrong before.. :/ . He seems to like what I do, but I think he hates how I am. I make less now than I did 15 years ago in California-hence the negativity on my part. But, what I'm getting to...and I know that, for various reasons, I am more a liability than an asset..age, etc...I have to say that I am willing to devote my (much earned) two week vacation to go to a country...a state....a village that needs a (somewhat) healthy body, and maybe, with pre-arranged support from generous supporters,and donations from various groups, I, as well as my sons (I haven't even asked them) but I believe in my heart they would love to go-to places in the world where the population could use some hands and hearts and materials to help them build.. water collectors...deliver fresh seeds and wood for cooking, just help to rebuild communities-folk's lives !-give them a shot at the first rung of the ladder,a climb that will make them a better in the end... ( BTW...there is not too many of us who has not had to address-and struggle-with this-not being to make ends meet...) I am volunteering, at my ripe old age, and even offering up the services of my sons to go help a needy village or community in Africa, or any other country in need, for that matter... There has to be folks out there that can afford (much more than us) to spend some of thier extra bucks to directly help people in need But, you say, how do you choose? Well, it seems the most important thing is to cut out as many "middlemen" as possible- have a group of as many as is needed..4? to 8? but a group that goes along with specific needed materials-in other words-if you are going in to build water-catchers for areas that are drought-prone, you have the pre-cut lumber,precut metal sheet goods, in essence, "kits", to be delivered and assembled by groups that that is thier special talent...my wife wishes that I would devote so much passion to our lovelife as I do to the plights of others..I understand her jealosy..but I know that I also have a...debt I guess that I owe to anyone who has less than me...is that.. compassion?..well, if it is...I can't shake it off... maybe that's a good thing... posted by David | 3/19/2005 12:05:00 PM
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