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I ran across this at Dependable Renegade:

Bus driver delivers free home-cooked meals

JACKSON HEIGHTS, New York (CNN) -- Every day, unemployed men gather under the elevated 7 train in Jackson Heights, Queens. Many of them are homeless. All of them are hungry.
Jorge Munoz estimates he has served more than 70,000 free meals since 2004.

At around 9:30 each night, relief comes in the form of Jorge Munoz's white pickup truck, filled with hot food, coffee and hot chocolate.
The men eagerly accept containers of chicken and rice from Munoz, devouring the food on the spot. Quiet gratitude radiates from the crowd.

For many, this is their only hot meal of the day; for some, it's the first food they've eaten since last night.

"I thank God for touching that man's heart," says Eduardo, one of the regulars.

Read more at the link above.

This story about a school bus driver (!) is a very pleasant change from whining bankers.
--the BB

And yet we all hold each other up

Beautiful words from FranIAm:

With so much going on, with so many things that cry out for our attention, we all bend down under the strain. And yet we all hold each other up.

Let us not forget the dead. Let us not forget the living. Let us not forget the need for peace.

So much of war, hate, division, prejudice and destruction is our own internal need as humans to project evil out onto other people. This creates the first step towards dehumanization and the development of "the other."

That is the soil that grows hate, division, strife. We must replant those fields with peace.

Until we can stop objectifying those around us as "the enemy", until we can see that the enemy holds some real estate within each and every one of us, violence, hatred, war, division will not end.

Sadly, since this has not changed since the dawn of time, I wonder how it can change now. However, I must remember what the words at the top of the page tell me... I am not free to abandon this or any other cause of goodness. I must seek peace, I must long for peace, I must work for peace, I must be peace.

I am concluding where she began:

Do not be daunted
by the enormity of the world's grief.
Do justly, now.
Love mercy, now.
Walk humbly, now.
You are not obligated
to complete the work,
but neither are you
free to abandon it. ~ The Talmud

--the BB

Should we bow? Should we offer? Should we sacrifice?

What can we bring to the LORD to make up for what we've done? Should we bow before God with offerings of yearling calves? Should we offer him thousands of rams and tens of thousands of rivers of olive oil? Would that please the LORD? Should we sacrifice our firstborn children to pay for the sins of our souls? Would that make him glad? No, O people, the LORD has already told you what is good, and this is what he requires: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied in a single garment of destiny.

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

So instead of loving what you think is peace,
love other [people] and love God above all.
And instead of hating the people you think are warmakers,
hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul,
which are the causes of war.
If you love peace,
then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed –
but hate these things in yourself, not in another."

—Thomas Merton, from "New Seeds of Contemplation"

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Almost anything you do will be insignificant,
but it is very important that you do it.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

--Mohandas Gandhi