{"id":1475,"date":"2016-01-18T16:33:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T16:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2016-01-18T16:33:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T16:33:15","slug":"outreach-to-the-homeless-catholic-workers-little-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"outreach to the homeless; Catholic Workers; Little Libraries…"},"content":{"rendered":"

More catching up on the past two months…\u00a0 I volunteered at an outreach to the homeless in Cleveland on Christmas night, during a trip back to the city to see relatives.\u00a0 This is run out of St. Malachi’s Church on W. 25th St. and provides food, clothes and a medical clinic.\u00a0 During a talk with the director, I learned he is lobbying for clusters of “small houses” for the homeless in the Cleveland area — as is being done in other parts of the country.\u00a0 Excellent idea…\u00a0 While in Cleveland, we also spent Christmas Eve with a group of Catholic Workers who take homeless people in, have a “Storefront” to feed those on the street, have set up an “urban farm” and volunteer for various neighborhood projects in a quite hardscrabble area of the city.\u00a0 For five years, our family intentionally moved to this area<\/a> in order to work in solidarity with this group.\u00a0 We can’t leave people in these places abandoned.\u00a0 We just can’t…\u00a0 Note:\u00a0<\/strong> And speaking of community building:\u00a0 Just prior to going back to Cleveland, I interviewed a woman in Findlay, Ohio, who had a “Little Library” installed in her front yard right on the sidewalk. \u00a0 About the size of, say, a pretty big bird feeder, there are two shelves for books.\u00a0 The concept is for neighborhood people to “…take a book, give a book.”\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> And as people in the neighborhood start to read the same books, it helps lubricate conversation drawing people closer together in community — in part, like it was in the old days.\u00a0 There is a “Little Library” website that indicates some 30,000 of these have been put up around America in the past five years since the initiative started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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