Tough, or centered?
A simple lesson
(Originally posted June 22, 2013 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 2014-09-10.)
My normal day runs as follows. After breakfast at the mission, at 5:45 I head for McDonald’s, where I drink coffee ($1.06) and do my prayer routines. Around 9:15, I head for the library, stopping at a convenience store en route to buy smokes ($2.75) and a soda ($1.69). From 10:00 to 2:00 I’m online at the library. When my time’s up, I go to the Wi-Fi café, write in my diary and have another cup of coffee ($1.00). Then it’s back to the mission, where I have to pay admission ($3.00).
Sunday mornings, I am normally left with bus fare to church ($1.60) and pennies. I meet my patrons at church and obtain an allowance for the next week.
Podcast – “Beautiful music”
We seek programming that makes us feel like we want.
The William Tell Show — “Beautiful music”
LeRoy Anderson, Piano Concerto, First movement
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Prayers at the shelter
I posted on FB 10/17/19 behind the Trump/Pelosi/Syria debacle:
God, give us a better President. Amen.
This recalled to me prayers I have offered at the shelter, all just as parsimonious. Continue reading Prayers at the shelter
Donald Sterling sex tape
A good article from “The Atlantic” …
… about homelessness, addiction and crime.
It’s a very long article.
I read the whole thing, and it was worth it for me, given that this individual sounds like any of so many of my homeless neighbors. Like half of all drug addicts, the woman is a psychopath; and it sounds like her daughter may be one as well; there is a genetic link. Continue reading A good article from “The Atlantic” …
720 sexes and no brain? I like it!
Jimmy, part 2
Thursday 2014-07-03. Jimmy came up to me at McDonald’s yesterday and sat down and talked about the incident. He doesn’t say he’d been drinking. He says people thought he’d been drinking.
Recall his psychiatric diagnoses.
Pastor sent me this clipping about the homeless squatters’ camp underneath the Jones Falls Expressway, which the City was about to raze — again. He thought the housing vouchers it mentions might be available to me. They’re not. A different detail caught my eye: the remark that many people in the camp “struggle with mental illness and addiction.” Note the “and.”
“Homeless Oregon Writer”
Homeless Oregon Writer
I just started following this new blog by another homeless person.
So far, it looks pretty good.
Good enough that I wanted to share it with you. That should say something!
Podcast – Donald Trump and civil war
“Let me be very clear, that I want Donald Trump to be both impeached and removed from office. That does not give anybody license to misrepresent his words.”
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