This season reminds us how much community is built quietly: through generosity, trust, and showing up for one another. We’re grateful for every person who walked through our doors, supported our mission, and believed in what we were building. Wishing you peace, warmth, and a gentle holiday.
Dear Tenant, Pay the rent.Keep quiet.Be grateful you’re here. That’s how these relationships are supposed to work. We didn’t notice the signs at first. They arrive softly:questions that go unanswered,plans that keep changing,access that suddenly feels conditional. Nothing dramatic. Nothing you can point to.Just enough to let you know the ground has moved. We kept […]
Sometimes the story shifts in ways you don’t see coming. In September, we were shown a smaller space at a lower rate. Something that looked workable, or at least worth considering. So we asked questions.We did the due diligence.We tried to understand the plan. Then months later, the offer returned as something entirely different:a larger […]
Some corners never look like much from the outside.Ours never tried to. At a glance, it was just a faded wall, a loading door, and a strip of pavement weathered by fifteen years of footsteps and seasons. But this was where the work began.Where donations arrived in the cold and the heat.Where staff unloaded bags, […]
The work no one sees is the work that matters most. This room carried fifteen years of sorting, fixing, cleaning, choosing, repairing, laughing, and helping.It never looked perfect but it was the engine behind everything. Sometimes endings look messy on the way out.But even here, in the busiest corners, there was purpose. The story doesn’t […]
Some places sell things.Other places hold things. Not the objects — the moments. A kid discovering a VR headset in our toy aisle.Another carrying a giant giraffe out the door like he’d found treasure.Shelves of books that someone would flip through until they found the one that felt meant for them.Rows of pillows, glassware, sweaters […]
Some letters come with hearts. Others with headers. This one taught us a lot about what love doesn’t look like.
From the outside, it looked simple – a sign in the window, a final sale, lights turning off. But that wasn’t the story. Behind those moments were months of quiet negotiations, sleepless nights, and the slow unravelling of something we’d built with our hands. Every decision felt heavier than it looked on paper. We kept […]
Documents have a way of looking neutral – just lines, numbers, and dates. But sometimes what’s hidden between them tells the real story. This is where things began to change. Quietly, on paper.
Behind the scenes, shifting rent demands made staying impossible. For years we built, paid, adapted – but sometimes, the math changes faster than the story can keep up.
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