We lost our gorgeous weather today, which automatically makes the public transportation aspect of our project more challenging. In addition to some of the kinds of things we had already been done, one of our groups worked with a food distribution site, while another went out on Long Island (who knew Boston had a Long Island?!), a couple miles out into the harbor near where we are staying where they worked in the fog and drizzle in a field hoeing and weeding, and even helping move a chicken coop.
We "debriefed" a bit this afternoon with Carl MacDonald, our contact with the City Mission Society of Boston, who did a great job helping us articulate some of the things many of us have been thinking while doing the things we're doing. Part of the conversation was about, in essence, how people with a vision and a passion, and how perseverance in the midst of extreme hardship inspire us, sometimes into wanting to do even more to helpful, and sometimes into just taking a step back and trying to figure out where we fit in the great scheme of things.
Our young people continue to be engaged, helpful, appropriately curious, and most of all, compassionate. And they do, for the most part work really hard. New friends here continue to marvel at their work and their energy, and at how quickly they seem to "get it."
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