Spilt Wine

I haven’t talked about work in a while and quit frankly, I haven’t felt much like it. It is pretty exhausting a lot of the time. Here is a photo of the local newspaper from the community I am working in. As you can see the gang violence in this little town of nine thousand people is off the hook. Within one week, there was one murder, and three gang related shootings involving six people. One was a seventh grader who was shot in the leg during a drive-by. I made the front page of the newspaper when I gave a gang awareness presentation for the Cutler-Orosi School District. Prior to this week, we had one recent high school graduate and one tenth grader both murdered in two separate gang related shootings over the Christmas school break. Gang violence is ripping this community apart.

As exhausting as the work can be, I really enjoy it. There are a lot of good people and in Cutler and Orosi. After working out there for a day, it definitely leaves you humble and thankful for what you have. The next time you feel like complaining because you are short on money, or you don’t feel like you have a large enough house, or you don’t like your car anymore, come to work with me, and see first hand what the poor lives like.