Eleemosynary Experience

Kaiser, Santa Clara, is not busy today.

An excellent eleemosynary experience is chauffering elderly people to the doctor. Today I transported C. and her husband to the Kaiser Hospital and Medical Center in Santa Clara for a scheduled appointment.

C. only drives locally now, and the sole Kaiser facility that treats her condition, a form of strabismus, is 27 miles away. She insisted that we use her Honda Civic, which was peppy and easy to handle.

C. wrote a check to the church, as she always does when I drive her.

We stopped for lunch in Redwood City, and the couple split a reuben sandwich. There are no delis in Foster City and it had been a long time since either of them had had a reuben. I ordered a cobb salad, my first since the pandemic began.

What was originally an obligation had turned into a pleasant day outing with good company and good food. That's the usual result of an eleemosynary experience.