Another old friend from the Peabody Center passed away the other day. A really special person that I won't soon forget. It was a good reminder for me, how precious life is. In the day-to-day, it is easy to forget how important it is to value the time you share with people you care about.
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| Old Orchard Beach, Memorial Day |
I have begun the process of solidifying my plans to stay on full-time at Catholic Charities after the end of our JV year next month! A very exciting move for me! I have really enjoyed my time at the thrift store and I am realizing that I still have a lot more to give there.
I will be heading back to Seattle in a couple weeks to see family, and to attend my good friend Celine's wedding. It will be so good to be back and to see family, friends, and old coworkers again, especially since it looks like I will be staying in Maine for the next little while.
I started volunteering at the St. Vincent De Paul Soup Kitchen again this month, after a long time away. I started doing it as a way to supplement my work at the Thrift Store (which was highly administrative at the time) with something more service-oriented, but I have come to really enjoy it. In the gymnasium where the food is served there is also a piano, and one of the people who comes in to eat is a great pianist and will sometimes play us some songs. When I realized I was working a soup kitchen with live music, I knew it was the right place for me.
This morning at mass, the gospel reading was the Parable of the Sower. The sower scatters seeds all over; the ones that fall into the street get eaten by birds, the ones that fall into shallow soil sprout a bit but soon wilt for their lack of roots, and it is the seeds that fall onto deep, rich soil that yield crops. It is the same for us, I suppose - without a good foundation we wither, but we need deep roots, and soil that fosters those deep roots, if we want to thrive.
So there you have it, Portland. Maybe my roots here need time to grow a little bit deeper.
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