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

DeVos and my student loans

http://slate.me/2pVctXHPart of what I was counting on , when I decided to take the $100,000 USC plunge to grad school was the student loan forgiveness program for public sector workers. And it looks like that will be going up in smoke

The Lice Comb

Next we were picking oranges and ants dropped into her hair. This lice comb may be my favorite possession in the whole world. I am also so very grateful to be able to take a shower and at end of my personal hygiene needs. I do keep in mind all the people who do not […]

DPSS Customer Service …

Needs an update. “14545 Lanark Street” has not been the Van Nuys DPSS office for over a year yet thos is the address the automated system gives out. 14545 Lanark St is an abandoned and boarded up building with homeless people living in the underground parking , or thos was true the last time […]

Food Drive Tips

This weekend is the Stamp Out Hunger , letter carriers food drive. Here are some tips to make your donations go as far as possible: It may be awhile before your food is sorted so please donate items that do not need to be refrigerated before being given out. Breakable items tend to break and […]

Spirituality and Mental Health

I am at the Cathederal ofOur Lady of Angels on Temple Street in Los Angeles for a Los Angeles Country DMH mental health conference. First, as a happy little Methodist I must say that Catholic churches floor me. I was born in a hospital populated with Carmelite nuns. For years I thought of becoming a […]

Core Beliefs, as illustrated by The Oatmeal

read the rest http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe “This comic was inspired by this three-part series on the backfire effect from the You Are Not So Smart Podcast. If you want to learn more about the backfire effect and other related behaviors (confirmation bias, deductive reasoning, etc), I highly recommend listening to the whole thing: Podcast Part 1 – […]