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PAY IT FORWARD

9/16/2017

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This is beautiful! At Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore (their website says—among other things—that they are a “grassroots answer to the collapse of civic infrastructure”).
 
When I stepped up to order my falafel, I was offered the opportunity to add a soup, sandwich, coffee, tea or soda to my bill. Then a button from the basket was added to the “board.” That’s my “soup button” on the board. It seemed lonely to me all there by itself. And I wondered if I had been played for a fool. By the time I finished my lunch, others had added a sandwich and soda. I watched someone ask for the sandwich button and a BLT was delivered—no questions asked. No funny looks, no checking IRS income tax returns. Fantastic, really. When I recounted this later to some friends, the skeptics wondered if enterprising types took advantage of the altruistic basket. We decided it didn’t matter. As Pope Francis reminds us: Who are we to judge.

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    Jennifer Wallace is a poet, photographer and teacher living in western Massachusetts. Paraclete Press published her new book of poems, Almost Entirely, in November 2017 and will publish a second collection, Raising the Sparks, in 2021 

    After decades of avoidance and experimentation, she decided in her 50's to get serious about her spiritual practice and is now, mostly, happily settled within her Christian roots.

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