Love and compassion are possible in the days and hours when caring becomes impossible and the heart seems to turn to stone. If we cannot help the helpless, then who can be help? The Mansion keeps my heart from turning to stone, my visits there are a prayer.

Friends, there is so much to do and so many people in need, but I have a very good and urgent cause to bring to you, if you are able.

The Mansion Assisted Care Facility, which I have been writing about for some months now, is urgently – desperately – in need of a new van, they have launched a gofundme project to hopefully raise up to 50 per cent of the cost.

There is little one cold do that would be more helpful to the residents than this. The van takes the residents to their doctors,  out for shopping,  to parks and field trips, to personal and emergency visits with family members.

It is their connection to the outside world. George Scala, the owner of the Mansion, and a conscientious and compassionate person, cannot get full financing from banks – he has tried – because he has spent so much money on renovations and improvements to his facilities.

There is little funding available to help the Mansion – its residents often have nowhere else to go. The stories of the Mansion residents have touched my heart and opened it.

The Mansion is a Medicaid facility, expenses run high and reimbursements are low, and probably about to get lower. I can testify that the care there is loving and above and beyond what is necessary. The staff is not well paid – there are not enough funds – but extraordinarily conscientious and loving, I see it every time I visit there, which is often.

Many of you have been so generous to the Mansion residents as well as the refugees, and I hesitate to ask you for anything more, but if you can help the Mansion get its van, you would be giving the residents a great gift. I first met them when they came in their van to visit the farm, these trips outside of the Mansion are so important to them.

Without their van, their world will shrink drastically.

I will keep on writing about the gofundme project it is up and running and I was fortunate enough to be the first person to donate. It is so complex to manage a facility like this, and Scala does it so well and warmly that I  hope he gets the support he needs for the van. You can help by going here.