Insomnia last night; well past 2 a.m. I was tossing and turning.<\/p>\n
Up at 6:00 a.m.<\/p>\n
Picked up co-worker at 7:00 a.m.<\/p>\n
Arrived in SF at 8:00 a.m.<\/p>\n
Began to sort painting supplies into four groups to prepare for the volunteers arriving at 9:30 a.m. About 20 people from a large, local corporation had arranged to volunteer for the day. (The corporation donates money to my agency for our service of matching volutneers with projects and coordinating everything.) They had requested projects that involve painting murals. The recipient of this generosity was the Koret Family House<\/a> on 10th Street. They offer free<\/em> lodging to families that live over 50 miles from SF and who have a child with a life-threatining illness. Many families come to the nearby medical center for treatment. Hotel costs are prohibitive, even for short stays. The Koret House provides “a home away from home” that permits families the chance to focus on getting their child well instead of financial worries. <\/p>\n It was a great bunch of people, very enthused. Each floor had a different mural: a world map, stars and moon, frogs fiddling in a pond, and ocean fish. My job was to check in periodically to see if they needed anything. There were four groups painting, on four separate floors. I ran up and down stairs all day. They finished at 3:30 p.m. and left, and I stayed with my colleague to finish up small tasks. Then I drove us home.<\/p>\n I got in the door at 6:00 p.m. I’m hungry (though I did eat lunch) and exhausted! <\/p>\n Tomorrow I will attend a gardening project at 9:00 a.m. and a soup kitchen project at 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n Time for bed. Soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Insomnia last night; well past 2 a.m. I was tossing and turning. Up at 6:00 a.m. Picked up co-worker at 7:00 a.m. Arrived in SF at 8:00 a.m. Began to sort painting supplies into four groups to prepare for the volunteers arriving at 9:30 a.m. About 20 people from a large, local corporation had arranged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11059,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/11059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}