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BY PAMOLU OLDHAM
BOWLS,
BOWLS,
BOWLS
An Eating Tradition
Becomes Community Art
S
ue Parker Byrd takes a break aer
breakfast and cleanup on a typi-
cal Tuesday morning at Operation
Inasmuch, an organization that
feeds breakfast to 80 to 100 of our
community every weekday. e staff and
volunteers serve family members who
arrived hungry—for eggs, sausage, grits,
coffee and hot chocolate. is morning I
was the "grit girl."
e breakfast hall flows with conversa-
tion, genuine eye-to-eye, thank-you's and
the sweet aromas of breakfast. e soulful
keyboard and voice of Giles Blankenship,
a pastor from Snyder Memorial Baptist
Church, sound as he plays "Lean on Me"
and "Leaning on e Everlasting Arms,"
everybody hoping he never stops.
I'm here to talk to Sue about how the
family members at Inasmuch help create
the vessels for the Bread 'n Bowls event. She
can barely stay in her seat telling me about
the annual fundraiser, because, of course,
she is hugging, waving goodbye and send-
ing folks into their day.
ere's something about bowls that's
essential and symbolic to eating and to this
event. On the fourth Friday in February,
Bread 'n Bowls raises funds to help feed
the hungry in our community. Clay bowls,
donated by artists at Cape Fear Studios,
Greg's Art Pottery & Gis and Green
Springs Pottery, are purchased and filled
