In April, I was honoured to give a quick talk about food security before heading out on a Fridge Walk with the Silver Falls Scouting group.
Not only did the kids bring in food donations, but they also made up these little fridge simulacra backpacks which are just about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. I owe big thanks to Philip Gammon for reaching out in January and for teaching me the various hand signals and handshakes of the Scouts. Also thanks to Bill Mahaffy for sending me photos and securing consent from the families.
These opportunities are so important to me because the youngest generation always has it the roughest. We as the older generations often fail to educate the children, to secure the future of natural resources for the children, to make sure they are sound of body and mind and moral and ethic and logic and reason. Then, we turn around and accuse the children of being uneducated and unprepared for “the real world.”
It’s hypocritical to have it both ways, so we all have to do our part to make sure every child born in this world has the opportunity to succeed both as an individual and as a node of compassion and productivity within the larger networks and frameworks of society. Most of that responsibility and action means cooperating as adults to serve as a model for the generations coming, so let’s replace judging and finger pointing with understanding and self-reflection…and shoe box fridge walks!
