Participants said they worked 40+ hrs per week picking up donations, hanging clothes, pricing housewares, matching shoes, manning machinery at the warehouse, etc.
In exchange, the org paid them as little as $1 per week or w/ "canteen cards" they could use to buy soda or chips.
Gardening makes me happy.
What I love about it is, that plants don't care. In today's world, everybody is impatient and wants everything right now on demand.
Plants don't give a crap. They grow slow. And there is nothing you can do about it.
Platonic love is often the most fragile, without the rooting of family or the commitment of romantic partnership. We are all free to come and go as we please. So true vulnerability in that context can be scary, but ultimately liberating in your capacity to be seen and still loved