Recovering Wall Street Employee Speaks Out about the "1%"

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28. I'm sorry I can't do more.

I know people are struggling. I have donated eggs to the local food pantry and I gave eggs to the local occupy movement before they disbanded. I have 8 pecan trees and have gathered a bunch of them up. Nobody has responded to my offer on Wishadoo.

Unfortunately, I have 3 autistic children and my youngest daughter is severely autistic, non-verbal and self-injurious. So although I have resources beyond my personal needs; they are not financial resources and I am somewhat limited in my mobility because we have struggled to keep my daughter in school. I have stayed home with her since before Christmas (she finally returned a week or so ago). She turned 18 in December so we can finally afford some medical analysis and intervention, but it is still a struggle. Watching her full time is like working two shifts and being on call. At one point in my life I had a day job, an evening job, was an officer in the national guard and a landlord; I yearn to have the free time that I enjoyed then.

However, if someone nearby is in need of food and brings it to your attention; I will be glad to provide them with eggs, chickens or pecans if I'm contacted either through PM or Wishadoo. I also grow quite a few cucumbers and tomatoes during the growing season. Of course I'm hoping to go to work this spring, but even when I'm working I try to grow excess food. My autistic son maintains the chickens. Since I have been unable to supervise him as closely while I've been watching my daughter our egg operation is not as productive as it could be, but if I had a regular recipient; we could get the operation back to 3 dozen eggs (or so) per day. Sadly, I had been giving a lot of eggs to a friend of my sons - and the young man was shot dead here in town at his place of employment.

I have a bunch of extra roosters running around; I wish I could find someone willing to slaughter and consume them. If someone nearby were interested in helping with something like that; I have a 300 egg incubator that is designed to hatch out 100 eggs a week - some continuous arrangement might be made. It is just sitting here at a time when I could be hatching eggs. I'd be glad to give away some laying hens as well.

As I said; I'd like to be able to do more to help people; especially if it means making people more self-sufficient, but I'm a bit tied up myself.

If you think of something that I can do to help someone within those parameters; let me know.