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Why, yes, I did leave it there! Street Prophets Helping Humpday. [1]

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Date: 2023-06-07

Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, a place where politics meets up with religion, art, nature, food, and life. We’re at the middle of the week, when we need a push to get over the hump and start looking toward the weekend. Come in, take a cuppa and a cookie (or three!), and join us.

Helping Humpday was one of the gifts created for us by bfitzinAR. It was taken over by DixieCollie, who also left unexpectedly. It’s still here, a place where Kossacks can share and show caring.

My physical therapy is one of the things that was lost to the pandemic. I’m a believer in masks and all those other tiresome precautions. Since the public at large doesn’t believe any longer, I keep myself at home, going out maybe once every two or three weeks, double masked. Without continued therapy, I can barely walk two or three steps unsupported on my best days.

A short while back, some (presumably healthier) people were commenting rather disparagingly about people who leave their shopping carts near their parking spaces, especially if those happen to be close to the handicapped parking. I have a different view. I consider it a real gift when I pull into a handicapped spot and there’s a cart ready for me. For some reason, cart corrals are never near handicapped parking, so a cart I can use as a walker means I don’t have to manage with a walking aid, that then has to be dealt with all the while I’m shopping. I’m not the only one, by far. A couple of months ago, I came out of the store to find an older woman (yes, even older than I am) trying, and failing, to reach a cart while not letting go of her own car. She was in serious danger of falling. Of course, I pushed the cart to where she could reach it. Then I loaded my groceries into my own car—and I left, leaving my cart for the next person who couldn’t walk as far as the cart corral, and especially not as far as the store, itself.

My own needs are simple and easily taken care of. (But don’t be like the woman who came sprinting across the parking lot, snatched up a cart in the handicapped area on her way, and dashed on into the store, dragging the cart behind her. I lost my chance for the cart because I was slow, struggling to get out of my car.)

Some of our own community members have needs that aren’t as simple to solve as a conveniently placed shopping cart. Life came at them. Maybe they had an unexpected vet bill. Maybe utilities were more than they could handle this month. Maybe they had a necessary car repair. Whatever the reason, we have people here who could use a little push getting over their own hump.

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These community members need a little push to get over a hump. Maybe it’s an unexpected medical bill. Maybe there’s a life situation that has come up and requires resources beyond regular income. Maybe they just got behind and need help getting their footing again. For whatever reason they need help, Wednesdays are the day the Street Prophets diary focuses on those needs. Maybe you’ve skipped over this weekly diary, thinking the little you can give won’t make a difference. But you don’t have to meet a person’s entire need. If we all join together, the small amounts each person can contribute will add up to enough to make a difference in someone’s life. Even $2 or $5 or $10, when added to the mickle that others give, can be all that it takes.

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If helping financially isn’t the right choice for you at this time, you can still help. Tip and rec the diary so it stays visible. Share on social media: Twitter, Facebook, whatever platform you use, to bring the attention of others outside our daily readers. And offer words of encouragement to people who are struggling. It can be scary to be struggling, and it can feel lonely. This can happen to any of us. Today it isn’t me in need. If it isn’t you, either, please see what you can do to help.

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