Chapter 14T
he children seem to take it in stride that Daddy comes to visit but doesn’t stay for dinner or overnight. Over the past few weeks, they’ve developed a routine. Vince takes them for walks to the lake, hikes in the woods, rides to the log cabin restaurant on the old two-lane highway on the other side of town.
New clients show up at Loaves every week, it seems, and Rita scrambles to keep the shelves stocked. One day a week, she solicits donations from churches and service organizations. She sets ever more ambitious goals: a gleaning program, a co-op day care. She comes home as sleek and self-satisfied from good works as another woman would from a lover.
Once a week she meets with a dozen or so ex-clergy and social justice activists at the local Unity Church. Their causes differ
