Freedom

 

"When the last thing we notice is the color of skin, And the first thing we look for is the beauty within.  When the skies and the oceans are clean again, then we shall be free.  When we're free to love anyone we choose, when this world's big enough for all different views.  When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, Then we shall be free; We shall be free!" 

 

What does freedom mean to you?

 

 

"Life, Love and Peace to you...",

 

Chaplain Royal D. Bush

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Family 101

 

"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder." 

 

 

I had lunch today with a long time friend.  Growing up he always said "I don't care if you become policeman, fireman, doctors or lawyers.  My hope is you become a productive citizen and good person"  AMEN!

 

 

"Life, Love and Peace to you...",

 

Chaplain Royal D. Bush

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Reality of People Living in Public Storage Units Captured on Google Street View – Poverty Insights

Reality of People Living in Public Storage Units Captured on Google Street View

We [Poverty Insights]have written a lot on this site about the tragedy of people living in Public Storage units. Heck, we have even drawn about the subject too.

Now it would appear this modern economic hardship has been captured on Google Street View.

For those who are not familiar, Google pays drivers to drive around cities with cameras mounted to the rooves of their cars. The images are used in Google Maps so people can see a picture of any street they are interested in.

While most Street View images are pretty uninteresting, I was looking through a blog that catalogues unique Street View images and came across the following picture.

I don’t know where this picture was taken, but perhaps this missing information underscores the point that there are people all over the country who are forced to live in storage units. It is said that a photograph is worth a thousand words, and indeed, images, like stories, can be powerful.

But this picture really caught struck me because it is so candid and unexpected. This is not a romanticized portrait of poverty. It is not a work of high art or cinemagraphic genius. This picture is more like one taken with a surveillance camera than a photographer’s.

Yet it is the very mechanized, utilitarian way in which this image was captured that resonates with me so deeply. This is the reality we have been talking about on this site, documented on a Google Map.

I hope we can erase this image from Google Street View. To be clear, I am not advocating censorship. Instead, let’s hope the next time a car drives by this Public Storage unit there is no one living there; no one who needs to live there.

However, we have to do more than hope. On Monday, Joel John Roberts wrote about how we need to consider building smaller housing units to help house those experiencing homelessness. I agreed with him before, and agree with him all the more now.

Public Storage units are small, and they do not have the proper amenities for living. Yet clearly people can, and do, live in small places. So why not build small units that are actually made for people to live in? A person living in their small apartment would make a better Street View image than someone forced to live in a Public Storage unit.

troubling...and revealing...

Brother Joe

Sharing

When the doctor had an infant that wasn't doing well with meds and began to waste away, he would scribble a e prescription. The new doctor wanted to know what he prescribed.  A nurse said no drug, just 'Old Anna': a grandmotherly woman in a rocker.  Whenever we have a baby and all else has failed, we turn the child over to Old Anna. She has more success than all the medicine in the world. 

 

Love=Medicine

 

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving Day to Brother Joe and to those whom share the good word, the good life and those who help make life on earth as it is in Heaven. 

 

"Life, Love and Peace to you...",

 

Chaplain Royal D. Bush

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Part of being a brother's keeper is living intentionally. One of the easiest ways to start your day intentionally is to sign up for a reminder e-mail at The Hunger Site. You will receive a reminder in your inbox every morning and in 5 minutes, using the tabs on the hunger site page can already have given to hunger, cancer, child health and literacy charities...with a simple click.

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Peace to you,

Bro Joe

Power

 

2 quotes to share: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us."  And "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." 

 

Where do you draw power from? 

What do you give power to?

 

 

"Life, Love and Peace to you...",

 

Chaplain Royal D. Bush

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MIND body spirit

 

Many people walk around in a state of chronic stress: muscles tight, nerves on "edge" and ready to snap!  Sound familiar? The brain & body work unnecessarily harder, which causes fatigue, high blood pressure, muscles tire & patience wears thin.  SET LIMITS at work.  USE CIRCLE of friends & family to share support.  SET 1 health goal!  ENHANCE sleep quality.  TAKE 15 min. each day to sit & breath-pray-meditate.

 

 

"Life, Love and Peace to you...",

 

Chaplain Royal D. Bush

(402) 953-5900

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