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I went to the Warm Up America website and I was so wrong... Warm Up America is an organization that knits and crochets blankets for many needy people, including the homeless. So I apologize for my last post and that it was so upset. I was dealing with my own perceptions of the homeless. Honestly I have seen that thinking elsewhere, and it is definatley one of the things I want to overcome. I talked to Kathy, my coach, yesterday, and she was really excited about my ideas. She and I are gonna talk in depth about it tomorrow. I am excited. I am supposed to come up with an outline... and I just don't know how to set it up!... but i will manage. Its very cold here at home tonight.

I was thinking about how exactly to get the knitting for the homeless project started. What do I need to do? What do I need to think about? One of the things I have been noticing is that there are a lot of knitting for charity projects/charities out there. I have read several that use money and knitted items to help children (who are essentially poor), people who are very ill, and people who are in dire living situations. So, why, do I see so little about homeless organizations? Why is it that the only people who get consideration are those who cannot help the situation they are in? I have noticed that there is a commonly held idea about the homeless. It is that they brought it upon themselves. Perhaps they were too lazy to get a job, too fat, too slow... whatever. We Americans, and I can only speak of Americans... we don't want to help people when we think that whatever has happened to them is "thier own damn fault." This, i think is the primary reason why I haven'

so this is the beginning. of something i hope that will prove to help me get going. Get going on what, you ask? Well, I will tell you, since you asked. Recently I took a class at church about Spiritual gifts. Spiritual gifts are things that a person is talented at and that they use to help others. (Usually used for others benefits and not themselves.) This is really important, because Spiritual gifts are different than natural talents. Well, ultimately what we realized, as I went through the course, is that I have a heart for hurting people, and I desire to care for them. This would generally consist of doing things to help people with physical, spiritual, and emotional needs. This seems so very much a wide and huge category-- but i realized that the person group I really cared about... had a burden for... where the homeless of the Rochester area. Apparently, the Rochester subway system (now defunct) is where many homeless people reside and live in the winter. This would explain why I