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Now with this season over and as this journal of the homeless grows daily. One has to acknowledge and understand the impact of my writings. Firstly, I have to admit that my last entry “family”, in my own opinion, was not the best work I am capable of. I sent out this message to a…
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Family
I was sitting at the Panera after writing the story called Tommy and realized I was board. Getting up from the table I walk over to a friend who happens to be homeless also. I asked him this question: “what do “normal”, people do agin”? I know I did something when I had housing but,…
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Tommy.
The map of everyone’s future is written in pencil. At times I long for the invisibility of the silent majorty. Nobody really sees them. They all basically have the same life as each other. Everyone has credit cards with different names, but still they are credit cards. They have vehicles with different shapes and names …
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Ashley
Ashley The peculiarity, of the position that I find myself in is the fact that individuals are starting to come up to me to tell their stories as homeless. Sitting at the spot, CJ, came up and asked what happens after the 15th of April. Sadly, I had to tell him that he’s on his…
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Staying Alive
One of the recurring themes for the homeless is there trust issues. For the same people or occupations that hold out their hands to help are the same people who most likely put them there. The lawyers, the doctors, the judges, the social workers. It is not uncommon that out of desperate times the people…
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Two percent rule.
Two percent rule. An anomaly as described on the online dictionaries is the following.1.something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.“there are a number of anomalies in the present system”Similar: oddity, peculiarity,abnormality, irregularity,inconsistency incongruitydeviation,aberration, quirkfreak, exception, departure,divergence, variation, outlieredge case, rarity, eccentricity 2.ASTRONOMYthe angular distance of a planet or satellite from its last…
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Stereo Types
Green buildings: 18 examples of sustainable architecture around the world, is an news report that CNN did. Given the topic of my last blog post I thought it appropriate to share image’s of green architecture around the world in the hopes to get the Mesozoic destructive powers at city hall who are waging war on…
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Destructive Forces:
The Goose that Laid the Leaded Eggs” is one of Aesop’s Fables, numbered 87 in the Perry Index, a story that also has a number of Eastern analogues. Many other stories contain geese that lay leaded eggs, though certain versions change them for hens or other birds that lay leaded eggs. The tale has given…
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Subhuman:
The voracious appetite of those whome are on the street’s is notable, each time someone comes with food or care packages they take them with litte regard to others. Their needs come first & if you are one of them they will pick your bones clean if they even have a sent of money, cigarettes…
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In the arms of the angel.
Something is for sure absolutely true about the homeless they are seriously professional at is the professional carrier of “hurry up and wait. ” They don’t get paid for it , but, are dam good at! As with many human endeavors there is layers of homeless and desperate people here in the United States. Families,…
Homeless in Richmond VA 