serving a cup of tea

This week both the jail work and the women's shelter work were easy. No one had any big issues. The biggest issues had the simplest most tender solution. A dear small woman, coming off some pretty potent drug use, asked me for some help today. She thought that some breathing exercises would help with her anxiety. It turned out though that she was too distracted by how cold she was to do any breath work. We went in the kitchen,I showed her where the tea and teapot were and I made her a cup of tea. I was hoping to find some honey to put in it. I ended up putting sugar so that she would have some fuel to burn to keep a little warm. She is scared to eat and doesn't seem to have enough get-up-and-go to help herself. I encouraged her to let the other women help her - get a bath ready - make her some food. She nodded and said "you care..