Tag: BSM
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You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here
The youth are gone for the summer…. and yet I remain. We are done next Tuesday at noon, which feels unreal, considering that this summer has been so full of experiences and of work. It has been frustrating, exhilarating, eye-opening, challenging, exciting, and it isn’t over yet. Now the fun begins–cleaning up the mess we…
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Reflections and retrospections
It’s my day off, and not a moment too soon. This summer has been amazing, but also incredibly frustrating, sometimes ridiculously unbearable, and I am still trying to sort out how to make sense out of my experiences. I have found myself in a community that is doing things that I care deeply about and…
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Experiences to remember
Funny and sadly disjointed experiences from Broad Street so far: 1) (said by a regular attendee at Sunday dinners to two 13-year-old girls visiting with their youth group): “So tell me, why is it that you two girls are in here eating with us instead of ‘walking the avenue’ on South Street? What I mean…
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Summer in Philly
Whew! So a week’s worth of work has been I-N-T-E-N-S-E… Just for my own sake, to document all that has happened thus far: I unofficially started here last Saturday, when I dropped by to check out the church and ended up meeting Nick and Peter, two of the other Youth Initiative interns at BSM for…
Deeper in me than I 