IDE President heeds our call to help the homeless.
Here at Demolition News Towers, we are a cynical bunch with little time for talk of spirituality or fate. But there are times when it seems that a greater power is at work behind the scenes, pushing the buttons to ensure that our destiny meshes together in an appropriate if sometimes chaotic fashion.
Take, for example, the fact that DemolitionNews.com was the brainchild of new IDE President John Woodward and our own Mark Anthony just over two years ago. Exactly 2,000 posts later, the stars of these two have aligned once again.
A few weeks back, Mark Anthony put out a pre-Christmas call requesting unwanted branded clothing to help London’s homeless through what is fast becoming a record-breaking and bitterly cold winter. One of the first to heed that call was John Woodward, with the promise of jackets, hats and a variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts.
But the weather had other ideas. And John’s donation became snowbound in the bleak Midlands. Other people may have merely placed the clothing back in their wardrobe alongside an impressive collection of Clements & Church suits. But Woodward is not other people.
Instead, he leapt into his car and took his unwanted but no-doubt welcome clothing to a homeless shelter in his native Wolverhampton, allowing us to close the loop and make our 2,000th post about the same person that inspired our first (and a good many since).
And the fact that this strange quirk of fate coincides with the Winter Solstice and the first lunar eclipse to coincide with it for 400 years just makes us wonder just who is pulling the strings…
