photo daniel lobo live towns easy joke people real joke recession realize borderline problematic college town real generally translates requires place task -plus hours week hundreds professors words real jobs mind good humor judgment freelance writer real client work yoga pants t-shirt morning break lunch shower finally hour work stopping walk girls home school hang definition real fine thing long food table lives affected mess work ways work wear hours friends ellen gabriel real definition level ellen nurse midwife town's largest hospital fall -plus-hours-a-week category real responsibilities delivering babies gabriel teaches ethnomusicology university emphasis jazz wrote book thelonious monk ellen messes work mess worst thing happen make fool chatting jazz cocktail party funny truth jobs matter people's lives world concrete measurable ways jobs good branding marketing work throw days week clients periodically phases feel guilty work writing cigarette market things higher education cool modernist furniture convince people teaching kids school dominican republic friend emily making people free health care community friend jeff people make good news spread write people things matter make difference people's lives spread news feels good recently interviewed evelyn busby executive director achieving independence center philadelphia feature article writing evelyn's center works foster kids teens early interviewing evelyn stopped -plus young people country foster care system year evelyn thinks moment she's constantly working give hope realize hope center offers practical teach life skills homework applications find place live show college real option aspects evelyn's work move focus emotional well-being kids experienced disappointment rejection trauma young lives center listen sense belonging acceptance kids feel included valued learn trust hope they're learning escape change past learn ways carry future evelyn they're learning light things matter clear lots things matter sorts jobs carpentry deliver mail matters helping find hope light happen things excited they're things easily day-to-day interactions people community volunteer opportunities things move evelyn's work nurturing sense belonging acceptance hope moving forward interactions blog blogs read makes grateful connect people writing possibly nurture things group people real cares part work dollars 