Tag: homeless
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October 27, 2007 08:50 PM EDT --
I go to a communion service every Saturday morning and then a group of us go out for breakfast after. This morning after breakfast as I returned to my car a man approached me. He seemed . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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March 06, 2008 10:16 PM EST --
Please note that this article is not written by me, however is published to this site with the authors consent. All comments will be directly forwarded to the author.
Brenda . . . more
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December 28, 2007 06:26 PM EST --
From today's Philadelphia Inquirer - if you have been in a public library in our big cities, you know they can be downright nasty. The Philadelphia library system has come up with a great idea that . . . more
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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 . . . more
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May 07, 2006 02:56 PM EDT --
Sequestered by collective greed
neglected puddles of pain
forgotten people bleeding
from wounds they've yet to sustain
They cry out, why can't you see
we're hurting here . . . more
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June 09, 2008 05:13 PM EDT --
I was sent this web site by a cop friend of mine. I checked into it and it is legit. Their sponsors pay out 6 cents for every click of the purple button on the home page, toward food for homeless . . . more
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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. . . . more
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September 12, 2006 11:53 PM EDT --
My son works in a Rehab section. I don't know if this was his idea or someone else's but I thought it was great. Save those soaps, toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, hand . . . more
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November 19, 2006 04:32 PM EST --
Hazy winter sun throbs on his weather beaten face. Grime caked sweat rolls off bearded, wizened skin. Gashed brow, life in tow, he struggles up hill. Greeting the morning with warm, . . . more
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April 06, 2007 05:20 PM EDT --
The cold had seeped through the shabby blanket the woman huddled under. I could see her shaking as she lay on the big square cardboard she’d made as her bed. Even though she . . . more
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October 11, 2007 02:23 PM EDT --
Certainly it was him, the man that I came to talk to. His posture was almost dignified despite his shabby tee-shirt and grubby jeans. His sandy blond hair was long and unkempt yet his face was surprisingly . . . more
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November 07, 2007 07:27 PM EST --
Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.
And homelessness is . . . more
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November 09, 2007 10:58 AM EST --
A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed for the Daily Californian. It is a great article and I wanted to share it!
Faces of Berkeley: Buddhist Works to Escape Homelessness
http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=26674 . . . more
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January 12, 2008 10:19 AM EST --
"Don't live nowhere."
All too often these three words were the answer a young minister named Charles Loring Brace and his associates received in reply to the question "Where . . . more
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January 13, 2008 06:08 PM EST --
My hubby and I and my son have been sharing an apartment and she has decided she wants to move without us. My hubby has been unable to work do to a back injury and he's awaiting back surgery. I have . . . more
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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." . . . more
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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 . . . more
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