State of the Garden (Front)

I was volunteering today at William Penn House, which was providing a comfort station for marchers during the day, as well as being full to capacity with guests.

I was doing some work in the office when a woman who looked about my age came who was in town with a group of women from Long Island for the March.

She came in to William Penn House for a bathroom, not because of any connection to Quakers or the house. But while she was waiting in line for the bathroom she ended up in conversation with the executive director, who said that the board member volunteering downstairs was also from Long Island–perhaps she knew me. It turns out that we went to the same elementary school and lived near enough to each other that we rode the same school bus.

It is just one of the reminders I’ve had this weekend of how connected we are.