#neighbors helping neighbors

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

“She’s homeless now”.

Friend David called earlier to express his thanks for those who helped the South Toe Volunteer Fire Company and to give me an update on conditions in Burnsville, North Carolina ( near Asheville).

We’re decimated down here. People lost everything. I’m well, I flew home from a work assignment to help and spent the past days lending a hand to our Fire Department.

We got on Bobcats and tractors and carved out new roads so emergency vehicles could get through. Laid two layers of stone so the State can come in and finish it off with a top layer.

XXXX, you’d made clear to me that you prefer donating directly to people in need rather than organizations and I have a friend who really needs help - she’s homeless now. I promise this money will go directly to Tammy.

Tumblrs, I have known David for decades. His pledge is now my pledge. I promise your donations will go directly to a woman in desperate need of your help.

If you can skip Starbucks today and send along $5.00 you will help someone with NOTHING.

Should you have any questions your messages are welcome.

Thank you.

D.

[filosofablogger]

The Height Of Stupidity ...

Let’s say you move into a new house in a new neighborhood.  The neighbors on either side of you seem friendly enough, even offering to help you when they see you struggling to get some of the heavier furniture into the house.  Good start, yes? And then … Once you and your family have settled, most of the unpacking is done, you decide to have a party and invite your friends … and about 20 people…

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[dailymanners]

If you give someone a ride home, or walk someone home, don't leave or drive away until you see them get inside and close the door behind them. Make sure you see to it that they get fully get inside safely before you leave.

This also applies to temporary residences, such as a hotel, airbnb, dormitories, ect.

Seeing to it that they fully make it inside safely isn't just about fear of something as drastic as an assault or a mugging. It would also be awfully annoying and stressful for them if they lost their key, and before realizing they're locked out their ride or walking companion has already sped off, so now they're stuck outside alone with nowhere else to go, and possibly a dead phone (when it rains it pours). Or maybe there's dangerous fauna in the area. Or maybe the neighbor's poorly trained dog with aggression issues is loose. Or maybe they slip and hurt themselves while walking to the door.

Even if you're absolutely positive they'll make it to the door safely, it's still a kind and thoughtful gesture to let them know that you care enough about their safety to see to it that they make it inside safely.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 163

Danny pinched the bridge of his nose, taking a deep breath, counting to ten and then letting it out. Why was this always his luck? Alright. Okay. Time to move again thanks to Dan pushing his body too far again, and ending up in his core. This was not how he was expecting to spend his days when he ghost-adopted his clone and sort-of son now actual son. Welp, he’ll throw a dart at the map to figure out where he’ll go next. 

Hm. Well, pack up Ellie! They’re moving to a place called Smallville, you always wanted a horse, right?

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Scala ad Caelum

[todayisyourturntolose]

me when francis mosses moodboard

[wifihunters]

i like. i never try to be alarmist but it just kind of baffles me how many years I've tried having conversations about information sharing and how no, no one has "nothing to hide", no one has a life where they will never become a target of suspicion, some people just live lives that have never forced them to think about that fact and face it.

i can tell a traffic stop is just a possible fine to you. it is to me. i also could see on the cop's perplexed face when he pulled younger me over at 1am when leaving a late shift that from the moment he smelled fried corn and restaurant sweat wafting out the window rather than weed and found a pale kid in an apron and ball cap--yeah, he didn't stop me because i had a charm obscuring my rear view mirror. He stopped me because my car was old and cheap and left the lot at the same time as another old car. He stopped me because the hat and hairnet I forgot to take off didn't let him see my face first. He stopped me because he was rolling the dice he would find someone else. When he rushed through without realizing that i handed him my provisional, vertical license from 5 years back, I knew it wasn't me he wanted at all. But he still turned his lights on.

Eventually the lights will come on behind you. You were out late. You were sick and just trying to get to the medicine aisle, and when you passed an employee, they took your sore throat mumble and cloudy eyes as something else.

You took too long, looked too long, showed up at the wrong time, or said something that was too loud for Susan behind the counter. Combative, non-compliant, manipulative. You feel so distant from the homeless man laying down in the parking lot and blocking traffic until an ambulance finally answers his calls, but you are five steps from him and five miles from the cop who looks through the window at the scene and shrugs, knowing and companionable, at you.

[albaricomics]

TW Disturbing, eye contact

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

We’ve never depended on them before. Why should we depend on them now?

In the western mountains of North Carolina outside of Asheville, the small communities of Cruso and Canton, wrecked by Hurricane Helene, were not waiting for help from the state or the federal government.

Local restaurants were dispatching food deliveries to homes each evening. Some residents were driving excavators and tractors to clear debris from roads, while others were checking on who had power and who did not. No one was sure whether any disaster relief was coming anytime soon.—NY Times

My friend David is helping his local volunteer fire department in rural Burnsville evacuate the stranded and perform welfare checks neighborhood by neighborhood, street by street, home by home.

David’s selfless service exemplifies the USA at our best. If you are so inclined, you can help :

[meamiki]

some random reverse entry au [office + reverse isekai loop] drawings :thumbsup:

[mildly interested in this silly au? here is a link to scroll through for all the stuff i've made for it! i'll make a proper master post... someday.....]

[natjennie]

getting some responses on my post about kristen and her parents conversation, specifically the "isn't it kinda funny that helio chose you and you were the one to bring the daytime back" and I think it's really interesting how different people responded to it like. maybe it's because I live in the southern united states but. there is a lot of religion, specifically christianity, as that is the obvious analogue to the helioic faith, that is downright evil, I agree. and obviously the prevalence of it is harmful to a lot a lot a lot of people, just as it's harmful to kristen in fiction.

but you have to understand that the individual people are deluded, they genuinely believe what they're doing is right. it's really easy to be like "ugh they sicken me it makes me so mad" in a theoretical sense but. do you have drive through workers wishing you a blessed day. do you have people see your kt tape and offer to pray for your pain to go away. like. idk I just think we have to have a little bit of compassion and understanding for people that are so entrenched in their faith that they do truly believe from the bottom of their heart that what they're preaching is true. especially in a world where divine magic is real!! kristen TALKED to helio. she makes literal miracles happen on the daily. so faith in that world is gonna be heightened to a crazy degree.

obviously I condemn their human-supremacy and their cult practices etc etc etc but in that little moment I felt for the applebees. it didn't make me mad or disgusted or annoyed. it made me sad. because they saw their daughter perform a miracle of the sun and it meant nothing to her. that "that doesn't feel special at all to you?" wasn't from a place of arrogance. they weren't lauding it over kristen. they were pleading. begging her to see it from their eyes: she is the chosen one. she is a prophet of helio and has been doubting and they want what's best for her. she's their savior. she brought the sun back from the endless night. that doesn't feel special at all to you?

[bobcatblahs]

My Fellow Americans:

I bet like me, many of you are feeling helpless right now. You feel like you’re screaming into the void. Hopeless. Against a current designed and destined to sweep you under.

Let me be clear: you CANNOT GIVE UP.

If you need to feel like you can do something, I do have some recommendations.

Stand up for your neighbors. Do not allow people to think acting on racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia- any of it- is okay. Ever. Call them out.

Do not stay silent.

Protest. Civil disobedience.

Do good radically.

Need an example?

Call your local food bank director. Ask how they need help.

We’re exhausted and we’re scared of how funding and grants will be over the next four years and we know that more people are going to need us because food programs, Medicaid, social security income, disability income- it’s all getting cut. He made that clear.

A donation of money- OR TIME- can change everything.

Take care of one another. Please. We can get thru this but only if we do it together.

[shotmrmiller]

Obsessed!Ghost definitely thinks you can do no wrong, ever. Everybody else is the problem and he’ll gladly help you get rid of them. No need to get your hands dirty.

that sounds like regular schmegular ghost to me. can't tell him shit if you care about other human lives. can't tell him about the barista who slammed your drink onto the counter cuz you'd asked for a sub ingredient and they only remade it cuz they had to. can't tell him about the boss that hates/harasses you.

cant tell him that you *feel* like your boss hates you too. can't tell him you had a bad day at work (even though you woke up pissy because health/tired/hate it here reasons) cuz if he hears about anyone that didn't help your mood, they're suddenly gone and won't be seen again.

[khiptid]

ohhh youu sly bastard.

[cupcakegalaxia]

Whether left or right, if you remove the foundational roots of Christian values, they then become destructive.

No wonder, why folks complain and slander the 'Puritan work ethic', ya'll cut the river from its source and now saying there ain't enough water for everyone. Sigh. The point of work is to serve and love neighbor -- your neighbor can be anyone, too! Your parents, siblings, co-workers, employees, etc. Etc. Good works are for those around you :)

(Addendum due to @rabbits-of-negative-euphoria: You are correct. Rest is apart of work and necessary. Divorcing the theology from the act of work also destroys people's ability to rest and rest well.)

Anyway its December and officially Christmas season :)