We spent the morning giving things away – clothes to wizo, glasses to an optician who distributes to disabled, tableware to a public nursery, etc. etc.  The afternoon went on IAWE organization.  And all that time Ezi was busy fixing things in the house.  I don’t thing there has ever been a repairman in my house, and now that Ezi is on the housing committee everything in the building gets fixed for free.  The pleasure he gets in helping others and helping himself is contagious.  

And then I remembered how we used to make packages for Israel when I was growing up in the US – clothes, canned food, shoes, bags.  Sometimes new, sometimes old.  Our relatives depended on those packages.  

And we felt that we were contributing something important to the world.