Hunger

Far to often people take for granted simple things. The fact they lie down at night in a safe, warm home. Or have food to eat, or warm clothes to put on. How would your life change if someone took away your food. If you were expected to work, play, got to school and learn without a single morsel in your stomach. If the hunger pains weren't stopped, only postponed by perhaps a glass of water. Your sleep was fitful at best, the pain wrenching you from sleep again and again. Your daydreams weren't those of other people who might dream of what they want from life, you were dreaming of food. A cheeseburger, and warm bowl of oatmeal, which made the longing worse but you couldn't control it.

That is why I want to raise money for this food pantry. I want to feed people. I want families to be able to sit down together and enjoy something warm, something nourishing. Why should they not?

And that is why I have anger at KVCC right now. They have the chance to help people eat, to enjoy a meal before bed, to fill children's tummies. And yet I was told, the school is far to conservative to allow a rock concert fundraiser.

At what point does it become embarrassing that a school, that teaches diversity and acceptance as part of their programs, will not accept something new to feed people. Hungry people.

This isn't the last of this battle, I will find a venue, I will feed people, I will look into the eyes of those who grieve their hunger and say, Lets eat.

I am not a rich person, I struggle to keep it all together as much as the next person. But people are hungry. In fact I  know a young man right now who is hungry, and I am ashamed to admit that I turned him down. Not because he was hungry, but because he has been content to settle into a life of mediocrity and accept it. He has the tools to change, but it is too much work for him to try. It isn't pleasant to have to walk to work, but damn when you wont even try.....

This damn country is starving to death. And I want to see people change that. People in rough financial shape, even those on food stamps, can open their home, their heart, their wallet. If you get so much food stamps that you end up spending surplus on junk food, buy a bag of groceries for someone else, invite them to dinner. Do ANYTHING to keep people from being hungry!

Now, I think I am off to rattle some people. I have a lot to do today and want to shake up as many people as I can find and make it known how unacceptable it is to deny a fundraiser for people who are hungry.