Today was Bingo Day, as it is every Tuesday, so we in the office were working with the background accompaniment of "O-47!"..."B-5!" etc.
Bingo is serious business around here.
Tuesdays are also legal clinic day, and once a month a podiatrist comes in. Today was the day for that too. One of our guys came in the office to show off the new shoes he'd gotten from him.
A nun comes in to do nails on Tuesdays as well.
Thursdays are Movie Days, with the big TV getting wheeled out into the dining room.
Today Sr. Mary Beth brought in Coco, her dog. Coco is very popular. These tough guys here, you know, the ones who have to be guarded all the time, aloof and defiant--they see Coco and crouch down and start baby-talking: "Who my good widdle puppy? Who my widdle Coco?!?"
By the way--I call her Sr. Mary Beth, but she's really St. Mary Beth. Says so on this award she just got--they wrote "St." instead of "Sr." They offered to fix it, but Mary Beth, perhaps not too surprisingly, declined.
"Whatever thoughts we have about God, who He is or even if God exists, most will agree--that God has a special place for the poor. The poor are where God lives. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is where the opportunity is lost and lives are shattered. God is with the mother who has infected her child with a virus that will take both their lives. God is under the rubble, in the cries we hear during wartime. God, my friends, is with the poor, and God is with us if we are with them.
"This is not a burden. This is an adventure."
--Bono
"This is not a burden. This is an adventure."
--Bono
2 comments:
hello Angela, and many thanks for the link to your blog!
It's strange how any site of a dog can even make grown tough men act more gentle...
It's got to be in the dog's ability to smile with their warm puppy eyes...???
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