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Fish Stick

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A man died during a sweep last week. Some, but far from all, of the displaced people from the sweep were moved into transitional housing. Others had to find somewhere else to go, where they may be swept again in another week or another month. The man who died had been through two sweeps in recent weeks, losing belongings each time, including a van. He was not one of the ones being offered a legal or transitional space. He was only being helped by people with lived experience and advocates to move his belongings yet again, and they didn’t have… read more

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A Change in Operating System

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A Foundational Change People have been talking about love and peace for a long time. It’s common to dismiss such talk as simplistic, sentimental idealism. But living according to love is a significantly different life structure from our present social and institutional norms. It requires us to be open to making changes in each of our own lives in order to learn how to live outside of the dominance-based worldview nearly all of us have been steeped in from birth. It includes changing our language, and some of our most basic frameworks upon which we make our decisions. To develop… read more

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Abatement of a Community of People

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There had been a longtime community living in a creek area, mostly hidden under a cover of trees from the housed neighbors surrounding them. Some of them lived together for years, off of meager resources, taking care of each other, and offering some degree of safety and stability to each other. O–, E–, U–, and T– were four people living there that I came to know. Sometimes they didn’t have enough food. O– reached out to a local faith-based charity and received food. As she shared information about the needs in the camp with those who responded to her call,… read more