Mounting Moments
The holidays are a good excuse for me to not have blogged for a number of days, but I am not sure that is the real reason. At any rate I have a pile of articles which I need to tell you about, so, here are a couple for today.
First is Project Homeless Connect, a one day homeless aid fair that began a year ago in San Francisco and went national December 8th. According to the Chronicle, by sundown more than 6,000 people had been helped in 21 cities. They were fed,massaged and helped to welfare services or housing. Mayor Newsom, of SF got the idea to assemble community volunteers one day every two months to help the homeless people. They do hair, nails, food, as well as getting them help with welfare applications, housing, etc.
This next is from Molly Ivins and I hope it might help with last minute gifts, but will also add to your reading list for 06. She recommends"An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas". This is the story of a woman shrimper who has fought a multinational company for pollution of waters in her town for over a decade. Molly also suggests a new Kurt Vonnegut book called "A Man Without a Country", a mystery by P.D. James "The Lighthouse", "In the Company of Ladies" by Alexander McCall Smith, "The Stranger House" by Reginald Hill, and also "Waterloo" by Karen Olson.
First is Project Homeless Connect, a one day homeless aid fair that began a year ago in San Francisco and went national December 8th. According to the Chronicle, by sundown more than 6,000 people had been helped in 21 cities. They were fed,massaged and helped to welfare services or housing. Mayor Newsom, of SF got the idea to assemble community volunteers one day every two months to help the homeless people. They do hair, nails, food, as well as getting them help with welfare applications, housing, etc.
This next is from Molly Ivins and I hope it might help with last minute gifts, but will also add to your reading list for 06. She recommends"An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas". This is the story of a woman shrimper who has fought a multinational company for pollution of waters in her town for over a decade. Molly also suggests a new Kurt Vonnegut book called "A Man Without a Country", a mystery by P.D. James "The Lighthouse", "In the Company of Ladies" by Alexander McCall Smith, "The Stranger House" by Reginald Hill, and also "Waterloo" by Karen Olson.
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