“If one of your kinsmen in any community is in need in the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor close your hand to him in his need. Instead, you shall open your hand to him and freely  lend him enough to meet his need.”

– Deuteronomy 15:7-8, Midday reading from the Liturgy of the Hours

Photo: Base of the grandfather oak