Images speak louder than words or song. Video of images create novels of lives of people you may never meet, people you see everyday, yet at the same time, they are invisible. They don't matter to you, you are not involved with their life. You notice the American flag, but ignore the veteran in the doorways. Stop ignoring them and watch this youtube video. It's only a couple of minutes. Two minutes out of 24 hours could easily change your perspective on life.

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I have a new site up with links to homeless information with Shelter directories that include a map. Also have links up for homeless people who blog online and have communities. So if you are homeless and need help, go to http://skypraer.tripod.com/homelesshelp

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Hello and welcome! This entry is for the brand new folks to Art4TheHomeless. My mother and I were homeless due to my job not paying enough for rent. We slept under a bridge where a murder took place. The killers walked right by us and we were blessed because we are still alive. She finally got her disability which enabled us to get into a place. For almost three years, she was on the streets while I was in Job Corps. Before that I was living in Louisiana when Katrina and Rita hit. My mother was in Atlanta doing well with her job. My landlord decided to kick me and a few others out because he wanted to make room for Kevin Costner's movie crew for the movie The Guardian. So I came to GA, joined Job Corps, my mother's legs started failing and she lost her job, lived in shelters then on the streets. Then I got a job, a place, moved her in, lost the job, got another job but this is part time, so I couldn't afford rent. We stayed on the streets again and that's when that shooting took place.


My friend, Beth, runs a blog in the UK and wrote about Art4TH so this is for yall who came from her site. I just wanted to say a quick thank you for stopping by and thanks to Beth for writing about me!

I want to give you the link to the webzine that features artists, musicians, and writers from around the world and also shelters and organizations that help the homeless and need help and volunteers.

http://art4thehomelesszine.tripod.com

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I bought an Obama tee shirt. A lot of folks wear them here so I decided to just join them, though, I wasn't expecting all the positive comments about my shirt today! I am glad I got it. I had so many people just walk up to me and agree with me on supporting Obama...and I think Obama would like that himself. He needs to come back to Atlanta, and I need to meet him and not at a dinner where its $2500 a plate.

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Now that I actually have access to the web, I am going to take the time to update all the links and create a webpage for them and list them in this order: By National and Directories, then by each HUD state. Since most of the links I have up are not working, I am not going to have individual Shelter links. I am also going to have them on the webzine as well as the blog so more people will have better access to the sites.

Also, I need poets, writers, and musicians for the next editions of October and November. If anyone is interested, leave a comment and your email and I will email ya.

Also to see the Art4TheHomeless webzine, the shelters and artists, poets, and musicians and also my folks advertising, go to

http://art4thehomelesszine.tripod.com

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Just in time for her birthday she received a nice sum of disability and treated me. I didn't get paid in time from my job but I am getting her a late gift her fave purfure L'air de Temps I think I spelled it right. Anyway she got a lap top and we have free wifi so I am online at home. It's a nice feeling not to have to go to the library and wait for an hour just to get on and once we get MS Publisher on here I can work on the ezine. We got everything but Publisher and now it seems we have only 60 days with the windows software before we have to pay or install another one. I am not sure how that goes but MS word has been telling me that I have to enter a 25 digit code to get in and that I can only access it without the code about 20 more times. Is that normal??? Oh, well, maybe we should just get photoshop. we did get nortan antivirus only to find out it was already installed but since it expires 60 days we are good. We went to Wolfgang Puck express for her dinner, though the guy forgot some of our drinks I guess, but everything else was great. The atmorsphere was not like home, but that is to be expected in the big city.

I am only working once a week now and that is killing me. I need more hours. I spoke to my boss and they said they would work on it but I am gonna bug em for those hours. I don't want to have to depend on my mom, I am almost 26 and should be making something happen for myself. It's hard because the economy sux, Bush sux, and there is something weird about Palin--I get this negative vibe from her especially with those pictures of her torturing wolves. What's wrong with these people? They want a wolf torturer in the office but want to arrest a guy for dog fighting. Maybe its a race thing-- Michael Vick is a black guy and Palin is a white woman. I still think its wrong. At least he apologized. It's a sad world where they let child molesters in the streets, have a vice presidential candidate who shoots wolves down for fun but messes up a guy's career over dog fighting. Wow. America is really fucked up. Thank God that my mom and I are okay.

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Atlanta has this law--you cannot beg. I totally agree with it. I have lived on the streets and I didn't beg but I got the help I needed. The City of Atlanta is doing its part. They have inserted parking meters--well they look like parking meters, but they are actually donation meters for people who feel compelled to help panhandlers. What will happen to the money in the meter is this: it will go to shelters and other organizations that help the homeless.

The City of Atlanta needs to be applauded! If every city did this, people would be more inclined to help the needy without feeling guilty for saying no to a panhandler.

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I am suffering from a broken heart. I broke up with my boyfriend because we just clashed. I mean, I am not gonna sit around and let the dude ask others out when he never even asked ME out and then he denied saying that to me. After he said it in front of my mom and one of her friends. Then he had the nerve to tell me that I have them under my control so they will do whatever I say. Then he says he is sick and that I could have helped him by doing yoga with him and encouraging him to study--I did that when I had time. Umm I was living on the streets, working part time, and doing my art4thehomeless stuff. So when I had to work was when he wanted me to hang out or whatever. He tried to get me to not go to work--wasn't happening. He also told his friends that I was abusing him...I never once hit him but I did cuss him out when he told me he asked another girl out. She refused because she was married by the way. I did myself a favor, though myself doesn't quite yet realize it. I wish him well, just as he says he wishes me well. Whatever. I am so through dating. No more for me. I will be single until I die. That kind of love does not exist in the real world--a lesson that I have learned the hard way.

Oh yea, he though it was funny that we were living on the streets--well he blamed Prozac. It's the pill's fault! The pill killed the lady in the green room with the candlestick! I saw it!

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