I’m going to keep this short because 2020 has been so chaotic and exhausting, it’s taken me several hours to come up with those two words to describe it. First, of course, I want to thank everyone for everything you did to help us get through last year. I left my retail job in March… Continue reading A Year Spent Surviving
From what I have read about trauma recovery, the process can take a lifetime. The damage done over decades cannot be overwritten in a few years. I’m looking to the future with cautious hope. While a new year may not be a magical reset, I am reflecting on my priorities. I want to improve my… Continue reading Future Focus
The older I get, the more I realize how inadequate my education was. My writing, my strongest skill, is littered with grammatical errors. I am passionate about the injustices I’ve discovered in the years since I’ve started educating myself, instead of relying on my parents to inform me about the world. When two people are… Continue reading What I Do and Don’t Know
I want to preface this post by saying thank you. You are giving us a chance at a place to live, and you all have been giving as much as you possibly can to help. That is tremendous. 29 people have contributed $3,720 to our moving fundraiser. That’s on average over $100 per person. Many… Continue reading The Barriers to Stable Housing
I’ve just written over 800 words of stream-of-consciousness prose, and it will never see the light of day, thank you very much. Many people are concerned about me right now but this is about the same as it’s always been. By that I mean I’ve always dealt with depression. I used to live in denial… Continue reading Creative Flow (Futility Revisited)
Every night, I get up at least twice in the night to bring meals to my partner. He is too disabled now to get his own food from the kitchen. We have a flight of carpeted stairs separating our bedroom from the kitchen and going down them gives him chest pain and a rapid heart… Continue reading Seeking a Home in the Midst of Collapse
I spend a lot of my time explaining myself to people who don’t know what it’s like to be truly poor. In many ways, I myself do not know what it is like to experience extreme poverty. What I know is that it is terrifying and traumatizing to be on the edge of not having… Continue reading The Urgency-Sustainability Problem of Poverty
This post was originally uploaded on July 28, 2015. It was re-uploaded as part of the archive restoration project. “Aren’t you sick of wasting so much time?And yes it’s true – you’re a foolIf you think you were bornTo be waiting while you’re hatingWhat you’re waiting for.” –Celldweller, Birthright Growing up, I often heard… Continue reading Losing Grip on Eternity, Part 2: Heaven as an Excuse
Content note (added January 2024): This post was originally posted on July 27, 2015. It contains a historical inaccuracy. The Quran was not written and published until about 600 years after the beginning of Christianity. “I was swimming through the wavesFor what must have been daysBut could find no relief;When I started sinking downI thought… Continue reading Losing grip on eternity: Part 1: Foundations and Questions