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Hawk Newsome, BLM and NYC
The people in a place make the place. New York BLM co-founder slams Mayor Adams for failing Black residents: ‘City is a warzone’ Quotes:...
timothyharleywright
Sep 9, 20224 min read
Poop
Here’s a new word: Equanimity. I can’t even pronounce it. A FaceBook post of October 29, 2018 by one Ray Lozada began getting lots of...
timothyharleywright
Sep 24, 20212 min read
* Podcast – I don’t want to live among these people.
That may motivate me to seek my own place. I don’t want to live among these people. Related blog post: “Out of reach” Related blog post: “Housing the homeless ain’t that easy” Related blog post: “Chaos overwhelms the poor” Related blog post: “What we need” Music: The Beatles, “All You Need is Love” https://thehomelessblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2040/06/18-all-you-need-is-love.mp3 #Courage #Infantilism #HousingFirst #COVID #Blackness #Racism #Crosstheology #Race #Rapidrehou
William Tell
Jun 1, 20201 min read
Choosing chaos
The problem isn’t that the system’s white. The problem is that it’s a system at all. I first meant to title this, “Choosing disorder,”...
timothyharleywright
Sep 27, 20193 min read
Upward mobility
Now that I’m seeking it, I can talk about it. This is the very beginning of my thinking about this, in terms of any organized...
timothyharleywright
Jun 14, 20197 min read
“What do you want me to do for you?”
(1) Clairvoyance isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. (2) It’s a mistake to ASSUME what sort of healing someone wants. Kevin This young man...
timothyharleywright
Jun 7, 20193 min read
Purification
The center of the universe is you. Here and now, this moment, wherever you are — that is the center of the universe, for you. From this...
timothyharleywright
Nov 30, 20182 min read
The left hand and the right
Crux: black magic works. Evil or not, it works. That tells us something about God. #AleisterCrowley maintained two altars in his home,...
timothyharleywright
Nov 25, 20182 min read


The self-loving reptile
This post has been a long time coming.
Many people in my world are fundamentally reptilian.
This largely accounts for their social marginalization.
The question is how to, for want of a better word, humanize them.
William Tell
Oct 19, 20183 min read


Someone stole my tablet.
If someone says they’re fleeing crime, believe them.
William Tell
Sep 14, 20186 min read
What can the rich do for the poor?
In the end, not much.
William Tell
Aug 17, 20181 min read
The Travelers
Violent funeral of career criminal killed by homeowner ‘cost £15,000 of taxpayers’ cash’ Henry Vincent was a burglar. An elderly man...
timothyharleywright
May 27, 20181 min read
News from the world of homelessness
Monday, March 12, 2018 This addict — from the way he acts, and the way he is in conversation, you’d never suppose he has a problem —...
timothyharleywright
Mar 16, 20181 min read
(1) I stay at the best shelter on the East Coast
… which shall here remain nameless, for reason that I also have harsh criticisms and don’t need any reader, however well-intentioned, to draw me into controversies not of my own choosing. The administration is rigid and authoritarian, and if I ever need to ask a favor it’s best I not be seen as a troublemaker. I had ample time to prepare for homelessness. I packed up all my stuff neatly to make it easy for the landlady to dispose of. I gave away practically everything of dura
William Tell
Jun 21, 20177 min read
Resolution
One can want the best for another person, but only that person can define what “the best” means. Thursday 2017-04-20 On the walk from...
timothyharleywright
May 19, 20174 min read
We are the 47%
(Originally published 09/18/2012 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reposted 10/24/2013 .) Romney: Obama voters ‘believe they are victims’...
timothyharleywright
May 17, 20172 min read
Smoking, part 1
(Originally published 09/28/13 at Trojan Horse Productions . Republished here 10/31/13.) (Saying “part 1” just in case. There may or may...
timothyharleywright
Jan 25, 20173 min read
About the Parable of the Talents
Main points:
(1) God always provides more than you need.
(2) Use well what you’ve got now; only then will you get more.
(3) What you abuse, you lose.
(4) Absent a disease process, chronic poverty is not a natural condition.
William Tell
Dec 2, 20165 min read
Chaos overwhelms the poor
Some weeks ago, I stood in line awaiting check-in at the shelter. This place charges $3 a night. I was holding my money in my hand, and someone playfully tugged at it. I snapped. I said, “You don’t value your life much, do you?” Minutes later, I explained this to someone else. I said, “Don’t take a man’s last dollar.” “Why not?” he asked. I said, ” ‘Cause that’s the one he’ll die for. That’s the one he’ll kill for.” Don’t take my last dollar. That’s the one I’ll kill for. I’v
William Tell
Sep 28, 201612 min read
* Attributes of the mainstream
Do I want to become a mainstream person? My visions for myself have been (1) becoming self-supporting while still staying at the shelter;...
timothyharleywright
Aug 31, 20162 min read
J. Geils Band, “Freeze-Frame”
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