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Philanthropic Phriday 42: Distress Centre
Jan. 1st, 2021 10:16 amHappy New Year and welcome to the first Philanthropic Phriday of 2021! This week's donation goes to the Distress Centre for the Ottawa region:
https://www.dcottawa.on.ca/about/
Christmas and the New Year or, for that matter, any widely or extravagantly celebrated holiday, can be a very difficult time for people on their own or who for whatever reasons feel they have little to celebrate. Pre-pandemic, many churches held "Blue Christmas" services, fellowship gatherings or other events for people in that situation. But in the midst of a lockdown, such services have been curtailed or at least modified in ways not everyone may find satisfactory.
Still, there are some vital community services that continue to operate 24/7 and distress centres are one example that all of us may need at some point in our lives.
And that brings me to the future of this series of Philanthropic Phridays. For now, I plan to continue with them but I may at some point scale back to, say, every two weeks or once a month. I don't expect to continue the series into 2022, although I'll continue to contribute to causes I believe in.
Plans, hopes and expectations, rather than the more intimidating Resolutions. All tentative constructs. Life and the world can be unpredictable at the best of times and even more so at the worst of times. But most of us need a bit of a framework to view the world through. That's what language, including this blog, is all about.
Here's to a better 2021 for all of us.
https://www.dcottawa.on.ca/about/
Christmas and the New Year or, for that matter, any widely or extravagantly celebrated holiday, can be a very difficult time for people on their own or who for whatever reasons feel they have little to celebrate. Pre-pandemic, many churches held "Blue Christmas" services, fellowship gatherings or other events for people in that situation. But in the midst of a lockdown, such services have been curtailed or at least modified in ways not everyone may find satisfactory.
Still, there are some vital community services that continue to operate 24/7 and distress centres are one example that all of us may need at some point in our lives.
And that brings me to the future of this series of Philanthropic Phridays. For now, I plan to continue with them but I may at some point scale back to, say, every two weeks or once a month. I don't expect to continue the series into 2022, although I'll continue to contribute to causes I believe in.
Plans, hopes and expectations, rather than the more intimidating Resolutions. All tentative constructs. Life and the world can be unpredictable at the best of times and even more so at the worst of times. But most of us need a bit of a framework to view the world through. That's what language, including this blog, is all about.
Here's to a better 2021 for all of us.
