This is a link I just found to a web site called "One Warm Coat" (www.onewarmcoat.org/gmaagency.html)
It tells you where you can take an extra coat to someone who doesn't have one (shelters and other receiving locations). On a related note, my brother has taken this idea to the extreme and has actually considered giving one of his kidneys away. I could go on and on about this, but I'll just say - I love that kid so much. What a sweet heart.
So, we're moving next weekend - one week from today. It's pretty crazy and fun and stressful and great all at once. So say a prayer for us because it will probably be irritating and hard but also fun and exciting - a fresh start, as my sister has said. In some ways, it's a metaphorical fresh start, but as I was wiping the dust off of the books I was boxing up the other day, I thought, weird - we're going to get rid of the dust, too. We get to try once again to find a place for everything and put everything in its place. That would be a first!
I'm watching Michael Moore's "Sicko." I know to take his movies with a grain of salt but I wanted to see this because even though I work for a non-profit association, I really do work in the health care industry to an extent. It's amazing how many of these health systems and insurance companies I've heard of and worked with through my job. They're the employers who put classifieds in our magazines boasting light work loads and 300K+ a year. (Save fewer people and make more money! yay? Is this what doctors want to do?) No, not all of them, but they don't mind the nice houses in upscale neighborhoods and the extra time off once they get through their residencies. After all, they've earned it, right? They do know a lot more than us common people, which makes them superior beings. Ooh, I better stop because a little bit of resentment is starting to show. I guess now I know how I feel about the state of healthcare in the US. I just asked myself today - are we really living up to the often quoted American motto: Give us your poor, your sick, etc etc etc... But now that we're done with that whole European immigration thing, we don't want the hispanic people to come in. We don't want the sick people in our hospitals, just the ones who don't really need much and can pay fully for it. I need to register to vote, I guess. You know, since my vote counts for something. Mwa!
