So, yesterday concludes my panhandling in front of Vons for a while. It was a little slower, but in the end still a beautiful success; meeting some returning faces from the previous day. In total, split between the two days and that brief hour the day before, I've managed to raise well over $280.
So, I called and scheduled an appointment with a clinic nearby, and come Monday at 2:30, I'll be braving a Yellow Fever shot.
This was my little glass sign that I propped up on my guitar case while playing.
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A friend named Cayla came down from Anaheim to stay with me for the next few days. I'd mentioned to her that I was saving for Uganda, and she decided to bring me groceries - - - pasta a plenty, macaroni 'n cheese, green beans, tuna, cake and frosting, monkey bread (if only you knew how delicious it is), apple juice, and more. It's well over enough to last me until I leave. God is so good, and I am so blessed.
"Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself."
Matt 6:25-35
Tomorrow is going to be a crazy day. My former fellow intern/roadie and good friend Emily left me a message about setting up a booth at the street fair in Ocean Beach? She'll be selling jewelry - - - and I may just bring my guitar or sell jewelry too. I still need to talk to her about the details. Some friends and I have made some wicked hemp bracelets that I might try to sell for a dollar or two each.
Last but not least, a friend invited me to go to a roller-skating rodeo (?) at night. Basically, rollarskating with a cowboy hat on. We'll see. I do love skating & cowboy hats.
Thirteen days and counting. There's still so much to be done.
