(fwd) Thoughts on the Homeless (fwd)

Donald Bokor (boko7751@uidaho.edu)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 08:20:41 -0800 (PST) 

From: "Frater klogW" <klogw@+nospam.accessone.com>
Newsgroups: alt.gathering.rainbow
Subject: Thoughts on the Homeless
Date: 3 Jan 1998 03:39:07 GMT

Gee, I seem to be posting in agr a lot lately, and here's yet another
thought that concerns the homeless:

Is homelessness really so much a financial thing as it is a lack of family?
 Yes I know that there are many people living in streets, vans, tee-pees,
etc., because they can't afford *standard* housing.  However the more I
thought about this issue the more I remembered low income Deadheads who
banded together and pooled just enough money to rent a house, and the same
with Rainbow brothers and sisters.  Then I remembered my days living in the
low income parts of the inner city. I remembered how the big difference
between the guy living in the street, behind the dumpster and my friends
living in the low rent house across the street was that the guy living in
the street had no *family*.   I realized that the sadest thing of all is
that it's not really about money, it's not really about housing, it's not
really about *economics* - it's about people.  In fact there are people
living alone in expensive inner city apartments who are every bit as
homeless, in their own way, as the guy living behind the dumpster.  This is
especially true of elderly people and it's something to think about if you
go to see 102 year old Rose Dawson narrate her story in the movie
_Titanic_.  Seeing the real Rose narrate the story, you realize that she
had something more valuable than all the jewels in the world; she had love
and she had family.  When we call ourselves Rainbow family, maybe that's
the most important thing we have in the world: family.

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