I believe the season you’re looking for here is “winter”. It’s very local Vermont lingo so I get why it may seem a little foreign. Welcome!

r/whoosh

Your electricity, tv, internet/cable, and wood supply are all by donation?

It costs you $0 to just not say anything. You can think what you want about anyone. Saying it aloud creates more problems than it solves.

Rustic Roots in Shelburne!

Thank goodness someone has the courage to use shame to create behavior change. It doesn’t work, and never has, but you’re really doing the lords work.

Worked for the Phillies

This is also why programs like Built for Zero show success - there are tons of organizations that are trying to alleviate housing problems but there is no unified system for participants so each program duplicates administrative work.

The demand all Americans should be making of our political system is objective systems of accountability. Every service should have measurable short and long term objectives, and each program should be required to report data showing their performance.

When the population is small, it’s easy to care about others. I love it up here because the Vermont attitude is one that remembers how much we need each other to survive, and thus helping our neighbors isn’t a favor or optional. It’s just what we do.