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New Gigs

Today I am thankful for new gigs.
 
 
I managed to get the volunteer opportuntity to help warn people about fraud.  It's only three hours a week.  I'm going to do it until I can find a paying job and then, at that point, I vowed to help them with their food drives and other events.
 
I had the car today.....hooray!!  I was able to drive Downtown for the interview. 
 
Karma was on my side, I found FREE parking!!! 
 
On the way home, I drove past an elderly man in a wheelchair that was hit by a wind gust.  It blew his cowboy hat off of his head. 
 
No one stopped to grab the hat!!
 
Not even a postal worker!! 
 
So, I went around the block, parked, and grabbed it for him. 
 
This man had asked me to put it on his head. 
 
He had a horrible sunburn on the top of his head. 
 
Worse, his hat had been hit by a car and a portion on the top of it was missing! 
 
I straightened out his straw hat and put it on his head and wished him a good afternoon.
 
I ran back to my car. 
 
I had just bought a new blue straw cowboy hat at a tag sale.  I was hoping it was still in the car. 
 
It wasn't. 
 
It would have meant more to him than it does to me. 
 
It would have brought out his blue eyes, too. 
 
I hope that man has another hat at home. 
 
The way we treat our elders in this culture is incredibly disturbing!
 
Please....do all the good that you can do in the time that you have in this plane of existence. 
 
Love ya,
 
S. 
 


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