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| Introduction:   Mo and Me Throughout the past year I have come to know many people, now friends, who for various reasons, are or were homeless. Giovanni, sleeps on a park bench and was beaten, had his teeth kicked out, for no other reason than his choice to sleep outdoors. He is a small, gentle man who has a phobia about enclosed spaces. Greg, sleeps on the sidewalk in the freezing cold. I see him every morning and am never sure if, when I lift the corner of his sleeping bag, I will find him dead or alive. Sometimes, he confided, he would prefer never to awake. Mo, is a close personal friend who fell on hard times. She has slept behind a dumpster in back of Starbucks. I have seen her with blackened eyes, bruised legs, cracked ribs, cut and swollen lips. I usually see her sitting on the sidewalk 'panning' for change. http://invisiblepeople.tv/blog/2011/09/mo-homeless-ottawa-ontario-canada/ In the past six months I have witnessed an upturn in Mo's fortunes. She now has the proper credentials to obtain medical assistance for her epileptic seizures, bouts of pneumonia, fibromyalgia, kidney failure and mental disorders. Through diligence she has saved enough money to share, with several other people, a warm, clean, safe house. I can't do much for these people except to show them love, compassion, an ear to listen, a hug to comfort, perhaps a breakfast sandwich and a coffee. I would like to do more. To know them is to love them. What has been seen cannot be unseen. I have started to write an account of their daily lives. I intend to turn this into a book and have it published. That is my goal. I am writing articles and biographies of Mo and other street people. They have been informed that they don't have to use their real names, that any profits would go back to the homeless and that it could be a vehicle to say whatever they want to the population at large. |
| 1. Table of Contents | ID #746912 |
| Posted: 2-12-2012 @ 2:13 pm EST Edited: 5-25-2012 @ 4:59 pm EDT | |
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25 May - 31 May, 2012: Conversations With Friends 17 May - 24 May, 2012: Conversations With Friends 9 May - 16 May, 2012: Conversations With Friends 30 April - 7 May, 2012: Conversations With Friends 18 April - April 30, 2012 : Conversations With Friends 1 April - 17 April, 2012: Conversations With Friends March 2012: Conversations With Friends February, 2012: Conversations With Friends January, 2012: Conversations With Friends 2011: Conversations With Friends 2010: Conversations With Friends |
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