A personal notebook
Thoughts, notes, and ideas.
Writing about whatever I’m trying to understand.
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American Untouchables
The extreme suffering the street brings is a constant hum. Hunger, isolation, hatred, beatings, rape, torture. And then death. It’s constant. A constant hum of grinding suffering. It doesn’t have to be this way.…
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Sage Lewis the activist
In 2014 Arnold Abbot, a 90 year old man, was charged with feeding the homeless in public in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Those “do not feed laws” in Fort Lauderdale still exist. Mayor Jack Seiler…
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Why We’re Selling 15 Broad Street in Akron Ohio
Rocky and I bought 15 Broad Street at the height of the great recession. We closed on the building on February 25, 2010. Nearly everyone said I was insane for doing this. There were…
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#12 – Are Bathroom Stall Doors A Right?
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“The Answer is Love” by Elon Musk
I don’t put a lot of weight in the incredibly nice things people say about me. I am just a regular guy who grew a conscience in his midlife. That’s all. But one trait…
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The 3 Stages of Faith
I can’t overstate how influential girls and women have been in my life. If I’m honest with myself, it was probably MaryBeth Glasgow that had as much influence over my abilities as a cellist…
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The Black Market
You can buy nearly anything on the black market. Food. Phones. Laptops. Clothes. Tools. Video game consoles. The prices for those kinds of things are unbelievably low. I’ve seen a Nintendo Switch that retails…
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Scumbag Activists
There have been a couple local activists getting some heat recently for being less than ethical in their social giving. This, I think, is shocking to the person in the cross hairs of these…
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#11 – Anger and Resolve
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Of Course I Still Love You
I sometimes have to remind myself that there is a cherry red Tesla convertible hurdling RIGHT NOW into the distant asteroid belt of our solar system. It will likely fly through space for millions…
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A Fiduciary Responsibility
This week I got word that “the church” across the street from where we have our dumpster located wants us to move it. It’s not on their land. It’s across the street from them.…
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Magic Housing Unicorn
There’s a high profile homelessness “expert” who is against these tiny houses that are popping up all over the country for homeless people. Barbara Poppe, who coordinated federal homelessness policy for most of Barack…