Gerard Vanderleun is in California. This is an excerpt of what he sees:
“Near closing time in the men’s Clothing Clearance Corner on the first floor of Penney’s at the Chico Mall, a young girl is replacing the piles of tossed clothing left by the numbed shoppers from Paradise frantic for cheap basic clothing. Some of them are camped in tents somewhere close by the mall; for how long nobody knows. But this young, quietly lovely girl is putting the Clothing Clearance Corner back in apple pie order as the store’s dismal day closes. I take my few finds from the Clothing Clearance Corner and, leaving, say, “That seems like a thankless task.”
“Not at all,” she replies. “Not at all.”
“Really? Why the hell not?”
“Hey, I do this job every day in this store. It’s my assigned task and usually its okay but I only do it for the money because it gets really monotonous, meaningless.”
She’s a student, I perceive.
“But today those people really needed these clothes in this corner because of the price. And tomorrow more people like that will really need them too. And so I want to make this the best I can for them. So I’m going to put it all back on hangers and arrange them by size. It will be right by the morning. You better go. We’re closing. Thank you for coming in.”
Just a young girl working late in the Clothing Clearance Corner. Doing one of those little jobs; one of those jobs that actually make the world turn. She was leaving it all on the field.”
http://americandigest.org/wp/chico-is-leaving-it-all-on-the-field/
Let us give thanks for a country where people still care for each other, not because the government or anyone else orders us to, but because we know it’s the right thing to do.
May you have a blessed Thanksgiving wherever you are, in whatever situation you find yourself. Raise the song of Harvest Home and please remember those who make our feasts possible.
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Yes it is what we do, because it is the right thing to do.
Amen, and I wish you and yours a happy thanksgiving!