Personal Preference for the Poor

October 23, 2011

This morning I will be meeting with a family living in a vehicle.  I don’t know them yet, but will seeing them at 11am.  I got connected through a friend.  This is now the story of my life. This week we moved in two friends from Casa Esperanza to the Village Apartments.  Friends were moving [...]

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the responsibilities of kings

October 12, 2011

I am very sensitive to “power.”  Where it is – and how it is used and abused.  The whole current “occupy” movement may in fact be a sense of how the current power situation is in the US – who has it and who doesn’t and the ramifications of an unchecked industrial corporate power system [...]

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Power and Poverty

September 22, 2011

I don’t believe that the “average” person understands how much “power” they actually have, and how that power can change local “poverty.” I think many  are waiting for someone else who seemingly has the power to do something about it.  We are not owning the issues in our own community. People in the church are [...]

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Dream is Collapsing

August 25, 2011

I have been a big believer in synchronicity, intuition, and the prophetic living impulse… I have been reading Mountains Beyond Mountains, reading emails from a friend regarding the poverty and recent atrocities in Sudan, and listening to the soundtrack Inception. One of the cuts from the soundtrack to Inception is titled “Dream is Collapsing.” If [...]

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will the opportunity just slip away?

August 23, 2011

I am in the midst of reading Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, “the quest of Dr. Paul Farmer…”  I am about 1/3 through it, so who knows how it ends?  It has encouraged me forward – that is the least I can say.  Dr. Farmer says it straight and it would be well for [...]

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the vulnerability list

July 28, 2011

There now exists a list of 100 friends from the streets that are deemed the most vulnerable – those who may die on our streets if they do not receive housing.  Common Ground Santa Barbara, trained by the 100khomes campaign, has initiated the process of determining the most vulnerable and began the chase to create [...]

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Inspired by Dostoevsky, Again…

July 6, 2011

So, here we go – the quote is (sent to me from Jennifer) – ‎”Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”  And so again, I am inspired by Dostoevsky again, to go into the menagerie of this thing called “love…”  Now the quote in my mind is torn [...]

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Looking in the Same Direction

June 17, 2011

“Life has taught me that love does not consist of gazing at each other but looking together in the same direction” Antoine de Saint Exupery I wonder what God gazes at, looks for? I guess I should not say that I wonder, because I think I know. I think while history continues, He is looking [...]

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Fire me please…

May 13, 2011

Well, yesterday was a chaotic day.  And I began to think that someone should fire me… I don’t know why I thought that, but then I went with it and thought it might be good to share ten reasons why you should fire me. #10 – A friend told me to be prepared for the [...]

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My memories of Brandon

May 5, 2011

(Picture is of two of our favorite friends we originally made at Alameda and Pershing Park – Gator on the left and Brandon on the right) So, the phone calls came Saturday and the news was that Brandon had died.  The autopsy results have yet to come back to us, but we know that he [...]

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