These are the plans

      Ok, I guess I thought everyone knew what I was doing. I feel like I've explained it to like a million people over the course of the last 6 months. Sometimes, I felt like printing my plans on a t-shirt and wearing it everywhere would be easier than telling every single person that asked in any given day. But I guess I must have missed some people. So here's the plan for the next year. Or the next few months, at least.
      I've just moved to Oakland, California to do voluntary service work with Catholic Worker. Catholic Worker was started by Dorothy Day and there are houses in many cities in the U.S. Our house functions as a hospitality house where Latin American immigrants can come and live with us for a few months while they get their affairs sorted out. There are currently 3 Hispanics in the house. We also serve a noon meal to any homeless people that happen to show up at our door (between 10 and 50 individuals, depending on the month and the time of month). There is one other volunteer in the house right now, but she is leaving in a few days, along with another guy who was here for a year. So it'll just be me and a live-in staff person who used to be a resident. The house is on the main drag of Oakland and is right next to a car wash. The car wash is extraordinarily popular and has the irritating habit of blasting music out of whatever car they are washing. So far it's been a lot of rap. The house also has a backyard, which is nice, with a garden. A previous volunteer, a Goshenite named Rosanna Kaufman, took care of the garden, but she left a couple weeks ago, I think, so it's sort of a mess. So that's the plan for now – live and work in the house for a year or so. In a few weeks, I'll try to get some sort of part-time job for supplemental income and to preserve my sanity. Ben will be in Oakland or something, so I'll get to see him at least every week. Anyway, that's the long version of what I'm planning to do. Hopefully that makes sense.
    Oh, and Anna Cook, my favorite color is green.

 And my new address is
Claire Unruh
c/o Oakland Catholic Worker
PO Box 19277
Oakland, California 94619