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Notes from my wife (and ‘almost First Lady’) \u00a0Liz:<\/strong> \u00a0 “As we often do when we are home in Cleveland, I and the children volunteered at the Storefront Drop-In Center on Saturday morning. \u00a0 The Storefornt is a Catholic Worker place for the homeless and others in need in the neighborhood. \u00a0 We serve food, provide a shower… \u00a0 This particular cold, wet morning we provided shelter and a place to socialize for a few hours. \u00a0 I was able to hand out some socks recently donated to the Center. \u00a0 This particular morning, I was struck by the lack of gratitude extended me while I was doing this. \u00a0 Than I realized that perhaps I wasn’t owed anything. \u00a0 That is, if I have enough — then anything beyond that doesn’t belong to me anyway. \u00a0 In fact if I have more than enough, maybe — given current global distribution of goods and food — I am a thief<\/em>. \u00a0 I am taking from my brothers and sisters who can’t get work because it’s gone off shore. \u00a0 Or I’m stealing from others who work in sweatshops in these jobs off shore, so I can own two pair of Nikes at an affordable price to me — but a year’s wages to the shoe’s maker.<\/em> \u00a0 Then there are those on unemployment lines (and in the Storefront) who have been pushed off their small farms by big corporate farming, so I can buy \u00a0an affordable \u00a0burger for a buck… \u00a0 Why should any of these people say thanks to me for giving them (socks this day) what, in a more just and equitable world, would belong to them in the first place. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The next week I cleaned out a few extra pairs of socks, and gave them back to my brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notes from my wife (and ‘almost First Lady’) \u00a0Liz: \u00a0 “As we often do when we are home in Cleveland, I and the children volunteered at the Storefront Drop-In Center on Saturday morning. \u00a0 The Storefornt is a Catholic Worker …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}