29/05/2025
The bigger the crisis the bigger the spirit!
A surreal couple of days on the ground delivering coffees to volunteers doing amazing things and heartbroken people showing amazing resilience.
There were tears, there were smiles, there were more heartfelt thankyou’s than you could poke a stick at and importantly there were conversations and human connections to remind everyone that we’re all here for each other!
To the organisers, the doers, the thinkers, the cryers, the non criers, the stoics, the angry, the calm, the pi**ed off, the family, the friends, the people who sold their house a day before only to have the buyer walk away the day after the flood, the guys who came from NZ to help to honour the Anzac spirit, the Sikh’s walking door to door giving meals out to people who’ve lost everything, the neighbours cleaning out the other neighbour’s house who lives in New Guinea and has no idea this has gone on cause “it will be a right old stink when they get back otherwise”, the mate Driving around burying livestock for anyone with his digger, the oyster farmers who played river rescuers “cause I reckon we know the river better than anyone” … you all create spirit.
Spirit that can’t be bottled, spirit that can’t be bought.
And speaking of spirit, Adam from littleitalycoffeeroasters who brought his van to town to help in any way he could. A town that owes him nothing, that he didn’t grow up in… just to see volunteers rewarded with a Jack & Co coffee.
That’s Aussie spirit. And we’ll need a lot of it for a long time here in the Manning Valley, but we’ll get there. 💪