Hiya people, I have been super busy, so I've been deleting mnforums messages out of my box. But today I decided to read it and you're all still talking about homelessness. So as long as I still have a mind to think, I should chime in. I have been homeless for more years then I care to admit. Well, quasi-homeless if you can call my vehical a home. Before I had the vehical, I had a bike and would just go sleep on a rooftop or a feild. It's not fun. The worse part is surviving the winter and not having any food. Catching a shower is a whole mission unto itself! What is realy frusterating is when you can't even use the food shelf because they require a piece of mail with your street address on it. Anyhow, you all can imagine how bad it gets with no scantuary.
Personaly, I imagine how good it could be. All I do is write and study. Plan for the future. I have all these great ideas for small business start-ups, I'm very intelligent about the NPO sector and culture, ect. And every year that gos by is wasting my potential because I have no security, no rest. It's all about slowly dying from malnutrision and neglect. "just get a job!" You need consistancy to work efectivly. When you don't eat and sleep well, all energy is zapped just walking, looking for food. Wait! Hey, I wanted to focus on the positives here Now, I do have some profesional contacts, friends and associates who hold me in respect for certain talents because I'm very savy that way. But that is work related. I'm building a bridge from my situational condition, to the optimum life I'm suposed to be living. It's a feat, but I'm not dead yet so I must be making progress. Statistics are that once you've been on the street for more then 2 years you don't get back. Well I'm beyond that mark. Anyway, please forgive me. What a bad way to introduce myself. You would all do well to know me as a very sucessfull and civicly engaged artist. I will most likly be very wealthy in the next few years and all this will be an irrellavent embarasment. I don't know, who knows. What do you WANT to know? I just read some of your postings as a desire to help. Help do something so your fellow man doesn't starve or get brain damage from sleeping frozen. I applaud your humanity. If anyone really wants to help someone, hey here I am. I was even almost thinking about what Joe S. (the founder of PPL) did back in the day, he asked people to make an investment in him. So if you see any hope in me, I've got a good email address you can chat with me at. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'm still doing good work at mnartists.org Oh, i'm totaly typing in the wrong forum today. I'm going to be so embaresed in the future. . I might as well say something about Govrener Tim and his 400 million dollar plan. I was guessing it will all go to administrative costs and I'll never see a dime. I could be wrong, but probebly not. Hey, i'll check this list for responces, but just email me if you want to send a few words or dollars my way. If not, I'll be forced to run for office so that I can build an "illegal campain contrabution fund". Ray Rolfe Minneapolis __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
