"Just Push The Damn Button!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....................."

Good Morning;

This is yesterdays post....ooops, gotta hit publish...lol.

In the March 10th 2010 issue of The Baltimore 'City Paper' free weekly, is an article and photo shoot entitled "Homeless and Hungry: Portraits by Michael Northrup" (also at www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=19907 2 videos and a slide show).

This is my letter in response to some of the comments;

particularly the letter to the editor in last weeks (Wed 3/24/10) print edition from Charles Washington.

We, the homeless are not one homogenous group who can all be lumped together. Each individual has their own story, demons, and needs, and while there are common elements, there are also major differences. Drugs and alcohol, mental illness, and illiteracy are now joined with layoffs, foreclosures, and Ponzi shemes as reasons people are on the streets. There are many formerly middle class folks, who could have been your friends and neighbors, who are not visible to the casual observer who commutes in clueless isolation and economic ignorance each day past the minority who do panhandle...(and as a matter of disclosure I also have begged on the corner of the expressway off ramp). By official estimates, 3,000 people a night are homeless every night in Baltimore and vicinity. To the narrowminded, knee jerk, automatic naysayers, who must place blame without facts....Open Your Eyes, Open Your Minds, Open Your Hearts...BEFORE!! you Open Your Mouth!
Thank you...........Dave Cluster............ www.homelesscide.blogspot.com
Posted 3.29.2010 11:20 AM

Seder last night at Lisa's parents house was lovely, a very eclectic and interesting and FUN group of people. This may be the only time you will hear me say this, but I actually wish the service had a been a bit more religious, or structured may be a better term.

(more thoughts on this later today, I have to stop bt Jenn's now.)

The whole evening went well and I totally enjoyed myself, and not once did I have to tell the whole story of being homeless, (I know some folks knew, but not I'm sure who).

Gottago, and the stupid computer is messing with the line breaks again..........arrgghhhh!!

......Later,,,,,,Dave