The Thirst is real. How much water are you drinking today? Do you know where the Cooling Centers are and how to get water to people living on the steeets ?

Internet at the library

Library cards are free. Public libraries are funded with our taxes. You don’t have to pay an entrance fee at the door nor do you have to pay to borrow a book a movie or even a puppet. there are however, late fees. I know this because I paid $33 just today. Possibly the greatest […]

E.B.T. and @CapitalOneCafe ATMs

If you dont like banks, or getting dressed up, and prefer working digitally with little human interaction, then you might be banking at @CapitalOne. I do, but mostly because they let me put a photo on a credit card 4 years ago(…but whatThe ever). So it came to my attention that folks with EBT cards […]

Those people

Here is a really great essay that I found on a website of another mommy blogger. It is about what it’s like to be one of the people who uses a food pantry and be confronted with the bias of people who for needed help. http://www.scarymommy.com/those-people/?utm_source=FB

LAPD & ICE in LA

Immigration raids I’ve been happening and everyone’s concerned. This is information from one of my neighbors. “Just want to share some information that I learned at a staff meeting today. LAPD and Congressman Cardenas office spoke at this meeting regarding immigration relations. Here are the highlights… LAPD does not get involved in asking for immigration […]

A Reminder that people are people, even homeless

Here are the stories of homeless men in Manchester who shone on the darkness of terror.https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/world/europe/homeless-hero-manchester.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2F

Poverty is a state of mind… says Ben Carson

His argument is that if you have the right state of mind you can have everything taken away from you and get everything back. I’m sorry been, but not everybody is Job from the Bible. And even their God had to give him everything back because he was destroyed by losing everything. Read more https://flipboard.com/@CNN/-hud-secretary-ben-carson-poverty-is-lar/f-1e92ba5983%2Fcnn.com

There is always room for improvement

So I am away from school and back at work because it is summer time. It has been months and months since I have worked at my office and there are so much that I have forgotten. There is so much that has changed. Not only are there program changes and computer changes there have […]

More in the MEND gardens

Full disclosure, I have one of these. I love this video because it’s the Luke and Laura of my everyday life. https://climatecents.org/projects/urban-farming-in-pacoima

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