A personal notebook
Thoughts, notes, and ideas.
Writing about whatever I’m trying to understand.
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Dorothy Day | Alan Graham | Sage Lewis – A communist, a real estate developer and an entrepreneur.
There is a very clear thread that runs through the work of the 3 of us. If you aren’t familiar, Dorothy Day founded the Catholic Workers Movement. She, among other things, created “houses of…
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#18 – A Freezing Homeless Veteran
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What Akron’s Extreme Evictions Actually Mean To Us All
I was driving a man across town to a friend’s house. He had stayed at our tent village for a time. But I didn’t recall him very clearly. He is deep in the throws…
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The Great Calling
I am repeatedly pulled in by Catholic thinkers. Thomas Merton Richard Rohr Dorothy Day And there are others that I haven’t gotten to yet simply because I’m so taken by these 3. Their connections…
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Akron won’t open warming centers until ZERO degrees Fahrenheit
A supporter of ours, Eva Buhite, called the Akron Mayor’s office at 330-375-2256. They told her that they will not open any homeless warming centers until the temperature gets to ZERO degrees. (They also…
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#17 – Substitute Teaching Day 1
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Defining Akron: Poor. Hard Working. Addicted.
Knight Foundation gave Akron $104,000 to create new Office of Integrated Development. I’m pretty sure what we mostly got for that money was this shiny 61 page full color brochure. I have a copy…
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#16 – Community
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Intravenous Drug Users: This is for you.
If you are “shocked” by swear words or just actual life in general, this post is not for you. This post is for people that shoot drugs. Look… I don’t give a shit that…
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#15 – Meet Lysa
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#14 – Where our charity goes from here
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Accepting American Slums
Do you know that phrase, “like a bat out of hell?” I don’t think you can truly appreciate a phrase like that until you have actually gone “like a bat out of hell.” We…