I'm a walking charity

My name is Josh. I'm a middled aged white american with a long resume populated with postions in all the many industries a man can work in. I've done sales and marketing, warehouse managent and software engineering. I've delivered papers and reintegrated cast-off commodities, worked in constrution and hospitality, cooked in a few kitchens and manned the dish pits on a few others. I've designed websites and sold novelty t-shirts and trained artifical intelligence software to properly process poetry, fiction and lyric. I've done little bit of a lot of things, but a lot of only a few things.

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chief among those few things I have spent much time doing, is art and charity. I was blessed to be born into a family where I was encouraged to be creative and to be considerate of the need in this world that is not my own. I went to school to study philosphy, which was a strange choice but one I suppose I don't regret, as it gave my muse a voice that is unique in the world today. My artistic efforts have not blossomed yet, but may someday soon. In any even they have not been scrapped.

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As for the work I do for charity, that too has also been a consistent theme in my life and persists to this day. I regularly work in a charity thirft store and often deliver meals to homebound individuals. I am a conversational partner with vagabounds and transients in cities all over the world. I am accutely aware of the difficults this life has in store for so many, and I want to do something more to address that strange reality.

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That's what this is. Rather than go find more wage work or take on debt to train in a field whose days are demonstrable numbered, I figured I'd try to carve out a niche that might be insulated from the shifting conditions of the broader world, something with a reliable demand that I could enjoy doing.

 

So I'm going to walk to raise funds to address suffering. It just makes sense.