Category: poverty
Give a little and clutch your pearls less, Arcadia California
I am still on the city of Arcadia’s Facebook page for residents and people who have been old school residents of that little city, 19 miles east of Los Angeles. I loved growing up there. It was a perfect place to be a kid. I did little league, dance classes through the community, I volunteered […]
Read More Give a little and clutch your pearls less, Arcadia CaliforniaArt , feelings in chalk
The room where I normally do therapy at the homeless shelter was busy today. There was no room for me. So I went to the 99 cent store and bought some sidewalk shock. I should have thought about what I was wearing and not been wearing a dress when I decided this would be a […]
Read More Art , feelings in chalkA Memory of Eddie Van Halen
We were at the Ellen show and they had just finished “Jump”. I’d been with them for 3 days while they were in rehearsal. After it was over, Eddie came to me and kissed me on my cheek. Right on my right cheek. He said thank you for all you’ve done for us. -B.B B.B. […]
Read More A Memory of Eddie Van HalenFrom Heather Cox Richardson
Hi, let me preface this post that I’m sharing by telling you that I am a Republican and have voted Republican for a very long time. I was a fan of Trump’s but I did not vote for him for president because during his election I got an insight to what his true character is […]
Read More From Heather Cox RichardsonMangliu is a name for a group of homeless people
A group of homeless people is known as ‘Mangliu’, which means the ‘blindly floating population’. An even better name for them? VOTERS.
Read More Mangliu is a name for a group of homeless peopleNIMBYs, Ruining Everything as Always
When you only have 4,000 people in the project room key hotels but you had a goal of getting 20,000 people into hotels, you have to ask some serious questions. do we not actually have 20,000 homeless people? Well yes we do. do they not want to go into housing or shelter of any kind? […]
Read More NIMBYs, Ruining Everything as AlwaysI done messed up therapy
Sorry Sara Paulson, and @Netflix, and everyone, and the Catholic Church and Steak Knives… https://youtu.be/rqdt7zbTTGQ https://youtu.be/rqdt7zbTTGQ
Read More I done messed up therapyHousing Skills come from experience
Over the weekend what other shelters added refrigerator stopped working. I received several emails from the guests there. Eventually they figured out that it was the fuse box and flipped the switch. Today one of the housing staff was baffled that they didn’t know to do that automatically, and actually they were more than incredulous […]
Read More Housing Skills come from experienceWatch “What’s required to end homelessness” on YouTube
How do you put somebody in housing and keep them housed? What is the money come from? How does this work?
Read More Watch “What’s required to end homelessness” on YouTube
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