A Simple Thread

100 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. That's what I handed out to homeless Houstonians today. I went by myself and it was a perfect distribution. A Simple Thread will usually go to places where we know there will be a lot of homeless neighbors. Today I went to a lot of other places where there were only 10 or 15 people. I stopped, handed out cookies, and talked to people. People talked to me about their sisters and daughters who sold Girl Scout cookies.Most of the stories involved parents having to pay for cookies because the siblings of the Girl Scout broke into the stash of irresistible boxes. I talked to three women who sold cookies themselves. One remembered when they were a dollar a box. I talked to a man who said that he had been in a home for troubled youth from 1979 and 1982, and all the boys were in Boy Scouts. He had some good stories, but said that he was always jealous of his sister who was in Girl Scouts for only one year, but got to sell cookies. It was so much fun to give them a choice of various kinds of cookies. Occasionally, someone would say that they would take whatever I gave them. But most people had a definite preference and talked about how they loved that particular cookie forever. One man asked if he could donate two dollars to help cover the cost of the box I gave him. I saw so many smiles of gratitude today and I haven't stopped smiling just thinking about them all day. A delightful day.