@marcos.diaz

[heliophilous]

So, I know there's a lot going on right now which seems like the perfect time to throw more fuel on the fire.

First off, I hope everyone's doing okay after what happened. I haven't heard about casualties or anything so hope everyone's okay.

Now, getting to the reason why I'm here, some of you may have heard about my hopes to set up a soup kitchen slash safe place for the residents of New Amsterdam. We're oftentimes well protected when things happen but a lot of them are not. They lose their homes, their livelihoods, and sometimes more when things like this happen.

The purpose of this communication is for a few reasons:

1. ideas and suggestions on how to raise the money that might be needed for this
2. ideas on what else might be needed for a place like this
3. possible volunteers to help build, gather resources, and then staff this when it gets off the ground
4. possible problems that I might not be seeing

I'm not a fighter. You guys have that covered. This is more my forte here and it's a way I can help for what I hope is a longer period of time than just being nomadic and going from place to place. Thanks for any input you have.

Comments

[heliophilous]

Yeah, of all things. Coffee I can get by with but man, I've reached for paper more times than I can count and not having it is irritating.

I've written things in salt before just so I could remember them.

[lifetothefullest]

I've never resorted to salt, but there were definitely times in college where I had to write something down just to be sure I could remember it five minutes later.

[heliophilous]

I think salt just happened to be nearby. If it had been shaving cream, I would have used that. This is like the worst possible instance of not being able to find a pen when you really need one.

[lifetothefullest]

How important was whatever you were writing down?

[heliophilous]

Important enough. I didn't want to forget it and I knew I would if I just tried to repeat it in my head.

It was the first thing that came to mind.

[lifetothefullest]

Hey, whatever works.

[heliophilous]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Let's hope it's a one time thing and I find something better to write on next time.