Red Bird School

At I'll catch you up on what is going on with me now. Red Bird School is a school in Kentucky where we are working this year. It has about 200 students. It is part of what is called Red Bird Mission. The mission operates the school, but they also have a health clinic and have teams that go out and make repairs on people's homes. That is probably the main stuff, but they do a bunch of things beside. Its a major operation, but the people that work for Red Bird are volunteer or probably not paid what they are worth.

Last year there were a bunch of sleazy things that happened that I just hated. Here, there is nothing like that that goes on. Beside being out of that situation, this is nice, because overall, we're closer to our family, and I still get to do something I consider important. In fact, this is more important maybe that anything else I've done. With other things I've done, if I didn't do it, somebody else would have been found to do it. Maybe a little better or a little worse, but things would have gotten done. At Red Bird, everyone one is very important to keeping things going. Doing important things is more important that being important. Despite that sentence awkwardly has the word “important” in it three times, that would be a good one for the Quotable Quotes page in Reader's Digest. Ironically they only print quotes from important people. How about this? From the “Toward More Picturesque Speech” section – I thought of this years ago: “The sea was waving to the shore.” Get it? Wave has like a double meaning there. It's like poetry. I'm a poet, but don't know it, but my feet show it because they're Longfellows. Ever heard that? When I first heard it, it was probably a decade or two later that I finally got it. Seriously. Same with the joke: How do you get down off a duck? You don't. You get down off a goose. I periodically thought about that for probably fifteen years before I understood the joke. Down off a duck? What are you doing on a duck? Geese are taller than ducks anyway. If you could get down from a goose you certainly should be able to get off a duck. I imagined scenarios where you are riding a duck and had to ride up to a goose to transfer to the goose somehow so you could get down. OK, I get it now. Its still not funny though.

Perhaps I digressed. The people in this area have a median income under $10,000 a year, so something like Red Bird is very valuable. I'll have to fill you in other times on how things are the same and different in Kentuck.