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Tag Archives: Hunger
To Eat Or Not To Eat
“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.” – Willem de Kooning Did you have to figure out where your breakfast was going to come from today? Are you wondering where the money for supper … Continue reading
Posted in In the community
Tagged Food For Fines, food insecurity, Hunger, St. Vincent DePaul, tigard library
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Capping Off A Weekend Of Service With A Good Laugh
“The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.” – Nicolas Chamfort, translated from French It was great fun at SnowCap Community Charities this weekend with my daughters Tessa and Hayle, to wrap up a weekend … Continue reading
Which Problem?
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.” – Mother Teresa Everyday, we read about tragedies and wish we could help. Many of these are problems – poverty, homelessness, violence, … Continue reading
Posted in In the Neighborhood
Tagged Children, Community, compassion, environment, garbage, Giving Our Time, giving time, Helping Out, Homelessness, Hunger, litter, mother theresa, society, Trash
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Mom’s Deserve Something At Christmas Too
“If [a food stamp challenge] becomes a distant memory then nothing’s changed. And so hopefully things like this can help expand our consciousness and motivate us to act on a more consistent basis.” – Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New … Continue reading
Posted in In the community
Tagged Christmas, Cory Booker, food stamps, good neighbor center, Homelessness, Hunger, poverty, SNAP
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The Food Elite
” ‘I must do something’ always solves more problems than ‘Something must be done.’ “ – Author Unknown There’s been a lot of talk lately about raising the taxes on the wealthiest 2% of Americans. The argument goes that those … Continue reading
Posted in In the community
Tagged christmas season, Hunger, local food bank, Oregon Food Bank, two percent, wealth
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The Small Things Are Not Peanuts
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” – Mother Teresa Yesterday was Giving Tuesday, a simple idea to break apart two frenetic days of shopping and allow the giving spirit of the holidays to shine through. … Continue reading
Posted in In the community
Tagged Giving Tuesday, Hunger, Oregon Food Bank, peanut butter, peanuts, True Life Church, walking on eggshells
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Every Little Nail
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” – Kahlil Gibran Every little nail is needed to make a house stand. Every little tree is needed to … Continue reading
Posted in Around the House
Tagged education, gift of time, give our time, giving time, Homelessness, Hunger, little things, small changes, small steps
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Empty Plates
“Life is mainly froth and bubble Two things stand like stone — Kindness in another’s trouble. Courage in your own” – Adam Lindsay Gordon The caterer didn’t show up, so my plate was empty. Yet, an empty plate was an appropriate … Continue reading
An Easy And Fun Way To Give Back
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” – Mother Teresa There were a lot of well-fed people. Sitting at the train station waiting for our exchange student Mariana to get back from downtown classes, I saw … Continue reading
Defining Homelessness
“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.” – Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti It’s easy to think of homelessness as the guy with the newspaper laid out over him, trying to sleep in an alley. Yet, today … Continue reading
Posted in In the community
Tagged homeless, homeless teenagers, Homelessness, Hunger, Oregon Food Bank, True Life Church
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