Re: (fwd) Thoughts on the Homeless (fwd)
Theodore Latham (tedrico@hotmail.com)
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>From: Donald Bokor <boko7751@uidaho.edu>
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>From: "Frater klogW" <klogw@+nospam.accessone.com>
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>Subject: Thoughts on the Homeless
>Date: 3 Jan 1998 03:39:07 GMT
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>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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