This has been a crash and burn day. I am still in my pajamas and at this point there is no use getting dressed. I slept lots last night and could take a nap now. I hadn’t slept well for several nights and it caught up to me today.
When I got the mail today I found two more checks making donations to the Love in Action project. When I got back inside my iPad dinged to let me know I had an email. Found another donation made to VENMO when I opened email. These three donations put us way over our goal to fully fund the Thanksgiving and Christmas projects for the Detainees.
I first called the Captain of the Center on July 11. Since then we have raised over $7,000 plus the donations that went directly to the Center via Amazon. I am blown away by the support of this project.
I sent a note to the Captain telling him the two projects are funded and asked him to put on his thinking cap and come up with more projects. I have a feeling with the publicity that the project got over the weekend that more donations will be coming in. I hope we can come up with a meaningful project that others will support.
I made a crock pot of chili today. When I got up this morning the house was down right cold. I had opened my window last night when I first went to bed. I wanted to get up and close it during the night but it was too cold to get out of bed to do so! I turned the furnace on when I got up and warmed the house up. I love cool nights and cool mornings. The chili hit the spot today – I love soup season!
I should have painted today but I didn’t have the energy to do so. This has been a busy week and I needed a quiet day at home not doing anything. If I don’t gift quiet space to myself today, I would have paid the price for it later on.
Tomorrow I am meeting my siblings for lunch at the Chicken House in Olpe and then we are going to scatter Gene’s ashes at a place in Hartford. It will be nice to have all my siblings together for part of the day.
After tomorrow I don’t have anything on my calendar until I leave for India on the 8th. That will give me lots of time to pack and go get anything I think I might want to take with me. I will probably go to Costco next week to pick up a few things. I do need to make a dog food run before I leave town too.
I have been thinking about faith and trust lately. It feels like they are becoming almost old-fashioned values and are becoming rare. I have lost faith and trust in our government. When Kathy had Covid I wanted to look up the latest recommendations about Covid and realized I couldn’t use the CDC website as a trusted source. That shook me then and I don’t think I have recovered.
Yet, I feel the faith and trust that many have put in me for the Love in Action project. Still not sure why they see me as a person they can trust. I know I am very leery of making donations to projects these days that I discovered on-line as there are so many scams out there. I discovered today that there are five fake Kay Krause Facebook pages that have been created in the last couple of days. All have the story from the Reflector posted on them as their only entry. Guessing they are hoping others will be fooled and will ask about sending donations. Damn them anyways! Be careful out there!
What a time to be alive. Things are falling down around us. We no longer have a functioning government. Neighbors are being pitted against each other. The noise of the chaos is loud.
Yet, there is a ribbon of love running underneath all of it. I see glimmers of faith and trust daily that is getting covered up from all the chaos in the world. May I continue to ground myself in that ribbon of love. May we all do so!
Grateful the Thanksgiving and Christmas projects are fully funded, grateful for the faith and trust others have put in me, and grateful I could take a rest day today.