"There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up."
---Bernard Meltzer
It seems to me there are few volunteering experiences that yield such a good feeling as delivering meals to elderly people who need them. You get direct contact with people in their homes, some of whom interact with few other people all day. They are so appreciative and so nice about something as simple as bringing a meal (and not a gourmet one!) to their door. One person said "Thank you for bringing this so that I won't starve this weekend."
The homes range from very well-furnished and neat to extremely cluttered. But either way, the face t0 face encounters are very touching. This is the type of project that I hope to be able to do every week or every other week.
And as a bonus, it gives me time to spend on my own in the car (at non-rush hour times when traffic thankfully is not bad) so I can listen to talk radio or to cds on tape. I even made a stop at the library after finishing my route and picked up some Spanish cds and a biography of Benjamin Franklin on cd. If I can keep myself away from my cellphone I could really learn a lot. Adios and Buenas noches...
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