Creative Potential
I’ve seen “hardened” men and women go from stoic and looking down at the floor, not making eye contact and barely sharing their feelings, or better yet not even knowing how they feel, to lighting up while creating love notes to themselves and vision boards that express their souls’ desire.
New Beginnings
To see firsthand the amount of care and concern and passion that the people of Free Food put into everyday existence restored in me a high degree of not only respect but compassion for the suffering, the needy.
Burrito Paradise: The Gift of Circulation
Fortunately, I learned something along the way that served me well. We don’t do those kinds of things for anyone but ourselves, and when we do, we feel good.
Summer Nights in Harlem
In that moment, in the middle of Harlem, on a porch with a bunch of people I didn’t even know a few weeks earlier, I felt welcomed. Like a neighbor myself.
Second Chances Through Housing Works Internships
Two of our former interns received certificates for their participation in the re-entry program and work commitments prevented several others from receiving their awards.
A Recipe for Happiness
Volunteers and employees are all given responsibility and allowed to shine. Tasks and assignments are based on desire and love, whether one has been doing that task for a decade or a day, and then given the time to titrate to their own personal capacity.
How to Learn
To learn something new, you have to admit you don’t know something and then be open to learning. At the same time, you have to know you are brilliant, you are just learning a new skill. Not knowing is the only way to grow.
A Heart Forever Changed: My Journey with Free Food Harlem
All of it was for this moment. This one exchange. I want for nothing, and he wants for everything, and yet here he is pouring more love into me than I could possibly imagine.
Invisibility and love
I thought back to my friend who wanted me to do Free Food so I could see what I was made of. Now, I get to see how my love can change people, and they bring me into the light.
Hold Your Vibration. Be the North Star.
As I rested and found my way back to being the woman who emanates instead of does to the point of exhaustion, I remembered this time on the bridge in Nepal.
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