Tag: homeless
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January 06, 2009 05:10 PM EST --
Early one morning I drove into an empty parking lot to catch the first of a downtown sale.
I had exited the car when I first spotted her wheeling her burdened shopping cart furiously in my direction. . . .
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November 15, 2009 05:31 PM EST --
I'm not sure whether the recent threatening flood waters ,or the police broke up this makeshift home ! His paper sack wardrobe is to the right , I'm wordless ! What can you say ?
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January 24, 2009 12:31 PM EST --
It's going to get a lot more below zero tonight.
I used to see little cardboard box "shanty towns" under the railroad track bridge off Lake Street. That had to be impossibly cold. . . .
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January 24, 2009 04:23 PM EST --
Night Light
When but two sheets are to the wind,
You shed your life like a serpent’s skin
And are reborn in each moment
A child
Without judgement,
Without sense,
Without tomorrow.
Beguiling . . .
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July 28, 2009 02:35 PM EDT --
I have been seeing some posts about the homeless.
I know a story of a woman who was homeless by choice but not of her chosing.
That may seem confusing.
This woman was very . . .
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December 20, 2008 02:27 PM EST --
When someone comes knocking at your door seeking shelter how do you not let them in? Being presented with this dilemma would be difficult . . .
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September 07, 2007 12:06 AM EDT --
Everybody has one ... or so you would think.
When I moved from my mother's ... lease ink
still not dry. I met a guy.
He had no home ... no home at all.
I couldn't believe it ... handsome ... tall. . . .
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September 20, 2008 04:09 PM EDT --
It's been quite a while since I wrote about my friend, Lyn, and her new homeless lifestyle. So much has happened in just a few months. She has had 3 operations for kidney stones at a hospital in West . . .
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January 23, 2008 09:51 PM EST --
If there was one thing that the three Democratic candidates agreed on in their recent South Carolina debate it was poverty. And like the pastor's position on sin, they were all "agin it." . . .
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December 02, 2006 10:51 AM EST --
Homeles men and familys...who live in umbrage-cloth
Victory does claim thy path...for Saints of ol' abridge thy walk
Tired hearts of sad acclaim...orphans, runaways, helpless..God does-know . . .
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March 01, 2008 08:07 AM EST --
You pass me by on a crowded street
Without blinking an eye
And my days, they pass so swiftly now
I've no worries of how time flies
If I had been good enough . . .
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May 10, 2009 01:03 PM EDT --
Please don't forget today that our nation's shelters are filled with mothers, some with their children, some separated from families but mothers nevertheless.
Our shelters and food banks are filling . . .
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June 13, 2009 02:16 PM EDT --
My friends you won't belive what happened to me last night! Sometime after 1:30am last night some FOOL tried to break into my truck while I was asleep in it! That was until I said "What the Fuck!". . . .
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July 22, 2009 10:12 PM EDT --
Amalfi shoes tread Avenue Wisconsin
As politicos stroll the streets of Capitol Hill.
Pandas roam in Woodley Park
as a lady in black performs age old rituals
on the . . .
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July 09, 2008 04:29 PM EDT --
Dear God,
If only for today keep me safe
If only for today I will have something to eat
If only for today I will not be lonely
If only for today I will be alright
If only for tonight I will . . .
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February 16, 2009 07:37 PM EST --
So I'm cruising around online looking for some deals, freebies, coupons, whatever... and I run into this 'Free sterling silver necklace valued at $99' link.
With a glimmer in . . .
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July 26, 2009 03:40 PM EDT --
A Dayton, Ohio woman was trying to do a good deed when she took in a homeless man off the streets trying to get his life turned around. However, she got suspicious when the man just disappeared . . .
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December 05, 2009 06:04 PM EST --
home from war …
a parade … flag waving, hugging, a band
patriotism flowed all round hometown that day
I loved the feeling … I had been welcomed … loved . . .
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January 20, 2008 10:31 AM EST --
With the war in Afghanistan in its 7th year and the war in Iraq in its 5th, the Department of Defense says about 1,500 veterans of the conflicts are homeless so far -- and many more will be in the . . .
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December 29, 2005 03:49 PM EST --
It was warm, so I sat outside, to eat my lunch in the sun
I met a man who'd lost his way, and didn't know any one
He swallowed his pride, avoided my eyes,
and in a tiny voice, shared with . . .
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