All last week a local sports club took up a collection for Our Daily Bread of canned goods and personal items to coincide with the celebration of their Open House on Saturday. I brought three boxes (big-screen-TV-size) full of testimony to the club guests' generosity to work today. What was particularly gratifying was that the largest percentage of it was usable stuff--travel-size shampoo, cookies, cups, lotion, razors, combs. Sometimes with drives like this you just get people casting off the unappetizing items that have been sitting in the back of the pantry for goodness knows how long--those that perhaps even came with the house. But out of those three big boxes we only found two things that were unsuitable for giving away--a big glass bottle of cod liver oil, and Classico Vodka Sauce. Yeah, there's no actual alcohol content in the latter, of course, but it's still bad form for a soup kitchen to give away anything with the word "vodka" on the label.
But other than those two things, as I said, it was a wonderful collection, particularly since with the recent ice a lot of donations haven't been coming in.
Another Very Good Thing--that mailing that I wrote about earlier? It was an appeal letter; it got sent out late last week. The first replies came in today (we picked up Saturday's mail--no mail on Presidents' Day). It's lovely to see people being so generous. I hope our donors feel a sense of ownership of the place, that they are the reason why we can do what we do.
A very good friend is coming to visit from St. Louis; I'm gonna put her to work volunteering for a day. I'm curious about how the place will look through her eyes.
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Maybe she could wear one of her Rennaisance Fair outfits while she's serving in the soup line. That'd be fun!
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