If you wish your daily feel good vitamin from the RISSE Amazon Wish List,  you may have to hurry this morning, there were two Toysmith jump ropes on the Wish List (everything else is sold out) and I bought one of them for $4.32.

I actually thought it would be greedy of me to buy the last thing on the list, it might still be there. It costs $4.32.

The RISSE staff is struggling to keep up with us, a good predicament to have. You are doing wonderful work with that list, and I hope it feels as good for you as it does for me.

If you have any pennies or dollars left, I could use some for my own ambitious refugee wish list, the upcoming work I’d love to do with the RISSE soccer team. I believe we have raised the $2,100 for the Powell House retreat, I won’t know for sure until I get the mail at my post office box, if the storms will just ease up a bit.

I’ve committed to paying for the soccer team to enter the Session 3 Indoor Soccer Tournament at Kevin Smith’s Sportsplex Complex in Half Moon, N.Y. The kids are desperate to go and this tournament will run  over the course of eight weeks and set the soccer team up for an important championship before the regular season begins.

I’ve begun negotiating with Kevin, the tournament registration fee is $1,100, which is not a problem for the combined efforts of the other team parents, but is a problem for the RISSE team, their parents can’t help.

So I want to do this and Ali and I think it is important. I think I can get the cost down below $900, but not much lower.

I also hope to raise funds to send the team to a one-week camp at the Quaker Powell House Youth Center during the summer, they need to get out of the city and be free.  I don’t  have a cost on that yet. So if you are so inclined and the jump rope is already gone, here’s another way to do good today:

{Please consider donating to my refugee fund, Jon Katz. Post Office Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816., or via Paypal, [email protected].

We are helping these people in different ways, from different vantage points. We are doing good, and thank you, however you choose to help. This is a great and worthy cause. We are a community of faith, a fellowship of the weak and the vulnerable.