| The first time that the Camdens felt good about making a place to give some good food to the people that they cared about was after Eric had his first heart removed. After Lucy and Mary had come home from the principal's office, they were forced to take drastic measures about their only chance to make a better life for __________________ "We always knew that hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead
or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight.
Hope is the thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us
if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it." - President Elect Barack Obama |