Last Saturday

It has been a month since the last free lunch. My neighbors volunteered with me this week, and that was pretty cool, and a couple of other really cool things happened.

I have been going down to the hispanic community center for a while now, and I sort of know a few of the regulars that are hanging out there. When I got down there, everyone was happy as they normally are, and the coolest thing happened, a few of the guys came out to meet me, and I think we could have hugged. I was taken back by it at first, so it didn't happen, but dang, we are familiar enough with eachother that we could really greet eachother with a hug. It still makes me smile when I think about it. Almost a year ago, I walked in there with lunches, and they all looked at me like some sort of weird stranger, and now, we almost hugged.

Sometimes when we are driving around in the hood, we offer a lunch to someone who isn't homeless, and they have responded in a lot of different ways, some just laugh, others get really mad. One guy this last Saturday was just really happy to get a lunch, and I was happy to give it to him. It was really great. No qualifications necessary. Just lunch.