Volunteer

Been lucky enough to be a volunteer all my life.  Really been blessed to find things to do.  People underestimate the importance of opportunity to match your intentions.  Some stories.

Did we really deliver forty cows in Bosnia that afternoon.  I always traveled the main roads to the big cities.  That day we went places I am fairly certain don't exisit

We met these people and looked at the most amazing diversity of strategies to house their new hope.  Each asked us to coffee in their turn.  In Bosnia there is never a real good reason to not drink coffee.  It is never easy to depart. 

But we had thirty five more cows to give away.  We left with little explanation needed and the understanding that the calf born in the spring would be their neighbor's hope.  It was the only compliment I ever received on the Balkans.  They let us leave upon our business.

There is a video of it all somewhere and yet I hardly believe it myself.  One household didn't offer coffee and we took offense.  It was a fumier story. 

Could you find yourself ever on the Balkans not offered coffee?  The last mile down the road or  up the mountain the world actually does change.