Starting the season right

“When you see your brother or your sister suffering, you must not stay silent.”

– Kabede Bimro, Red Sea Diving Resort

With the holidays just around the corner, we’ve joined the efforts to raise funds for our community, trying to make our corner a little bit better for those experiencing a downturn in their circumstances. Since COVID hit, businesses have suffered, people have lost their jobs. The homeless in Lee County have increased. Elections are coming up and we have no idea which way the winds will blow. I hope whoever wins will do what is best for everyone and work at mending the US.

With that said, there are a few things going on that I would like to share with everyone. I am a member of the Lee County Homeless Coalition. I think helping others in our community helps us get out of our own heads a bit. It allows us to see things from a different perspective. Helping others in our community is also about ensuring that our community continues to thrive.

Please share this page to raise awareness of the issue with homelessness and help those in greatest need access available resources. The following are a few of the happenings around Lee County here in Lee County, FL. I don’t get any commissions or payment from disseminating this information. Everything goes directly to the Homeless Coalition to be used for the programs in our community.

This is the Food Mobile calendar for November 2020
Questions? Visit www.CommunityCooperative.com or call 239.332.SOUP.
Download the PDF file below:

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Oma’s Heart has moved locations. In addition, due to social distancing, it will be changing procedures. To keep everyone safe, toys will be distributed by drive-through this year. Please visit Omasheart.org for further information.

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We all love to shop online. Now you can shop and support the fight to end homelessness! Please consider choosing LCHC as your charity of choice on Amazon! Sign in to smile.amazon.com and select Lee County Homeless Coalition to support. Thank you for all you do to make homelessness a rare, brief, and one-time experience.

Is it just me or is the world on fire?

Stumbled upon the review Why ‘Joker’ Is About All of Us and I find it speaks to me. In a few short paragraphs, the author has captured the soul of the issue, expanded it to envelop our current reality, and explained it in such a manner that she has given it life and made me perk up and pay attention…because I understand what she is trying to convey and she does so in such a manner that the words take on an essence of their own, filling in the empty spaces within the reality around us, becoming what we are living. Sometimes words can be touched, felt…they can wrap around your soul in an intricate blanket. I think I may need to put this movie on my list of Needful Things, maybe? I think the actor who plays the joker really brings across a sense of despair and loss as he slowly sinks into despair as the movie progresses. It is tragic, almost farcical, the way his life slowly unravels as the world moves on without him not realizing he has completely fallen off the boat and drowned.

Everything…and nothing at all

Who am I? I am everything…and nothing at all. I am one whose doctor refused to name for the love of me, more’s the pity…or maybe not. Who even knows what is best and what is not in this world where chaos reins and fairy tales are the hope of the masses? I am and that is enough in and of itself. What am I? Something between heaven and hell, between shadows and light. I am Frankenstein, put together of bits and pieces picked up along the road called life, a kaleidoscope of colors borrowed from those I have come into contact with, flavored by experiences that make me smile each time I close my eyes, flooding my synapses with adrenaline and suffusing my senses with joy and bonhomie recalling moments frozen in a time and place that will never be again. One can never go home again, after all. And that is as it should be.

Who am I? A dreamer, a cynic, a lover, a fighter, a creature that Loves the light almost as much as she loves the dark and the candlelight in which she sits alone and ponders whenever she is allowed to escape the world and retreat to the safety of her own mind. There are so many lovely songs, poems, thought-provoking pieces, the most thought-provoking usually obscure.
Sometimes, they may seem a disjointed bunch, as I travel from place to place to place…times untold, but they make sense to me…And that is all that matters.

As I slowly began writing again after years of hiding, I began to experiment with different things, the real and the imagined, the shadows and the light. Even that which is imagination is real to me in the moment that it comes to be within my mind’s eye until the moment it is birthed into words and sometimes deed and then, once again, I grow bored and set it free.