“I’m a hell of a cleaner. I just want to help.” A neighbor said that to us last week while dropping off snacks, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it. This one’s long,…
It’s always fascinating to me how we all carry around the massive weight of our lives, and all it takes to release some of that weight is a hint of patience and the…
At HRC, we hold a kind of power that most people never have to think about: we get to decide who has access to the resources that keep people alive. That is not a…
I feel like our work is a version of the kids’ drawing game, connect the dots. Every dot in the picture is something we actually do here. Connect them in order and, some…
I think the cool thing about community is that it brings a lot of people with different life experiences together and basically says, “Take the different parts of each…
Community. Common unity. Community is the act of seeking what brings us together. Each of us showing up with what we have, for the good of one another.
I was asked that when greeting a guest today at HRC. I looked over at our shoe closet, knowing my friends at Fleet Feet had just donated a bunch of shoes and boots last…
I’m grateful to have spent long enough doing this work, and to have grown enough as a human, to absorb emotion without pushing it away or making someone feel wrong for…
