Thistle Stop Cafe
Today Andrea and I had lunch at the Thistle Stop Café (thistlestopcafe.org). It’s run as part of the community of Thistle Farms and Magdalene, which offer residential communities and a social enterprise for women who have survived prostitution, trafficking, and addiction. For two years, they offer housing, food, medical and dental care, therapy, education, and job training without charging the residents or receiving government funding. The community operates under the principles of hospitality to all, healing, chado (a Japanese word…