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Volunteer
While this story and its characters are fictional, it is based on my experiences as a volunteer at the Chicago Cultural Center and my earlier career as a community college professor and department chair. It deals with common problems of retirement and aging the feelings of uselessness and disconnection of an interested but passive observer of life.
Manufacturer: Amazon
Price: $0.49
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| User Reviews |  | Getting Involved
rating: 5
This little article about a volunteer's experience shows how hesitant people are to help the homeless. It's a nice story about how a retired person can still be involved in lives of others and make a difference. It definitely gives the reader something to think about and challenges us to have more compassion for people in need. Great ending! I enjoyed it!
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Bringing Visibility to the Invisible
rating: 4
Old age and homelessness combine, in this story, to enhance the invisibility factor for the character Marie. Our volunteer from the story obviously was someone who cared, judging from her life's work of teaching, but she too felt uncomfortable with the woman's situation, even though she paid more attention to her than many others might have done.
I, too, have walked uncomfortably past the homeless who reach out their hands for a little "change". We often rationalized, those of us who did this, by concluding that the people would probably use their "change" to buy alcohol or drugs. This is how we justified in our minds that we had judged and found the person unworthy of our care.
Ms. Styne captured my attention with her story. I will think about it often and, like the volunteer in the story, change my reactions and behavior toward others with a similar plight.
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