I was introduced recently to a concept I’d, strangely, never heard of before–a derogatory reference to the work most often available to people with intellectual disabilities. Kyle cleans up after horses The phrase is: “food, filth, and flowers,” and refers to the fact that if a person with IDs is going to find work, it’s…
Sara’s Garden: A Father’s Love
A new Program Director came in a few months ago, name of Phil. Walking around the Ranch, Phil discovered an out-of-the-way garden, neglected and umkempt, much like the garden in the well known book The Secret Garden. He asked me about it and I told him, shamefaced, the story of Sara’s Garden–that it’s a memorial…
Fields of Dreams
What an amazing April—the best Texas has to offer. Cool nights, warm days, a real spring as opposed to our usual “wham bam thank you m’am” transition from winter to summer.Don, Phil, Jerry and I went for lunch Friday at the East Side Café in Austin to look at Dorsey’s gardens in the back where…
A Growing Concern
It being a beautiful day, I headed up toward the office on my bicycle to polish off a little work before the evening’s festivities began with the Cattlemen for Cancer Gala Benefit tonight. I peered through the trees and saw folks gathered around the retaining wall of Barnabas House. Curious as to what they were up…