I went shopping at Costco. It was huge. A massive walk-in refrigerator neatly packed with all kinds of fresh produce. Multiple flavors of freshly baked bread laid out on spacious tables. Aisle-long freezers of instant dinners. Pallets of cereals and canned goods. Candies, beef jerky, peppercinos and other non-essential food items, all sold in bulk. And it was all so clean. Orderly. Spacious. Honestly, I was a little shocked. Where did the crowded streets go? Where were the merchants selling rotten fruit out of their bicycle baskets? Vendors frying pastries in the streets? Trash? Smells? And beggars? Where are all the knock-off imports from India? The chili candies? Pollution? Goat heads? And desperation?
I have abandoned my orphans.
2 comments:
I just abandoned my orphans too, Nick. What shall we do about that? I'm compelled to send boxes of supplies they need and money for fuits and vegies to supplement their rice/spam diet.
Awww.
You're so right. Can we email them to let them know we still care? Can we send funds? We surely can pray! And we can go back!
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