What next?

It is so difficult to care so much about a place and only be able to see or affect such a small portion of it at a time. Today as Sarah and I drove around to check on the final state of our project sites she pointed out a teenager walking towards the Delery playground, and told me that he had come to the Village almost every day asking if we had any food. "He seemed so sad everytime we didn't" – how can I not be moved by that... Just one person's story in this amazing community: an American kid who could be easily trained for a lifelong building, culinary, computer or other professional trade. Idle and hungry today. It is really difficult to keep focused in this environment, when the need is so great and multifaceted...multi-faced. Is 11 days of work enough? Hardly. How can this and other efforts grow and network to create the comprehensive transformation that many are dying, or at least resigning, without?