Have we been distracted by Tweets and Facebook posts perpetuating needed or unneeded publicity that bring divisiveness. I cannot speak for you. So I am asking you to to read the below and to look away from the recent posting.
My neighbor Bill was a Trappist Monk in the 1960's. He left this world with walls into a world without walls in the 1970's.
I met Bill after my first knee surgery at the bus stop. I walked with a walker. Bill along with another neighbor helped me to enter and exit the bus so I could travel to and from work.
Bill became ill with a number of medical issue. He began to walk with a walker. He saved enough money from his monthly stipend to ride the bus and purchase all of the gently used socks he could afford at the Goodwill on Dearborn and carry the bags on his walker home. He laundered the socks, bagged them up and rode the bus to Harborview's Madison Clinic that serves people who cannot afford medical assistance.
I visited with Bill about a year ago as he waited for the bus to take him to the Goodwill. He smiled and waved to me as the bus drove off. I have not seen Bill, again. I have looked and looked for him. Some of the people on the bus looked for him.
I bought a couple of packages of tube socks last winter, and I wrote Bill's name on the sock's. I then handed them out.
I am fortunate to have long time friends, who have recently offered me cash donations for yarn. Since I have yarn and more yarn at the moment, I am asking you to buy a pair of tube socks, carry them in your coat pocket or in your bag, and hand them to a person on the street.
As for Bill, I hope he has transitioned to a new world, where his medical conditions no longer exist.
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