New Work and New Ideas

Today we began a different leg of our journey at a place called New Work. We began the day talking with Jarett who immediately welcomed us with warm coffee and introduced us to the people who would teach us a lot about New Work and ourselves. We began with learning how to make a leather bracelet with Blair and Anthony and how their business, New Work Leather, was a way for them to hold a non-traditional job. After that half of our group went with Dennis to inform other students of an upcoming special election dealing with rising taxes on gas. The other half stayed at the house and had a brainstorming session with Jarett about his project, Boots on the Ground, which would help to employ house-less veterans and those who had been previously incarcerated, by having them make boots to sell to the public. Once both groups arrived home and had some wonderful vegan chili made by Jarett, we began to have a conversation that really pushed the comfort level for our entire group. Emotions ran high and limits were pushed with all of us, but in the end when we left I believe that we all learned a lot. We learned that we are all brothers and sisters in our group. We all learned that we can depend on eachother in stressful situations. We learned that even though others may have radically different opinions than ourselves, we can still learn and take away something even from tough situations. Today, we learned about New Work, but more importantly we learned about each other and how when we stand together nothing can break our spirit. 1 Corinthians 3:13

Peace, Kelly