This stinks

There has been a strike for the past week. Anytime there is a strike it is meant to communicate a message, but this one stinks. Literally.

 Garbage removal in Ponferrada is done by a government entity. As I understand it, there are cutbacks to the workforce due to the crisis here, and they are firing more garbage and cleaning personnel. In order to fight against the cuts in these areas, instead of others, the sanitation workers have decided not to collect the trash. So it sits there in the sun and rain, day and night. It stinks.


A few years ago Ponferrada was named as one of the cleanest cities in Spain. Not today.

Inside I have this driving desire to start up my own trash removal business. Well…I guess I wouldn’t say a “driving desire,” but more of a “hey-this-would-be-a-great-idea-for-someone-else-to-do” idea.

But that isn’t how things work in Spain. I am not here to offer a better system of garbage disposal or political change. There are deeper desires which move sanitation workers and politicians, and those deeper desires need a Healer. We all do.

I suppose until that happens there will be stinky streets every now and then.