Author: Chacalit

I heard a story about a woman named Lassie. She was a 40-year-old woman who was married with three children. Lassie mother was sick with cancer and was dying. She quit her job to start taking care of her mother. Lassie was suffering from mental conditions and was starting to get bored with the life she was living taking care of her mother. One day she decided to go to the store and as she was leaving the store she saw an older woman leaving the store and needed help loading her car. So Lassie asked the lady can I assist you with loading your car and the lady stated yes you can do this every week. So Lassie started helping this woman every week with loaner car with groceries and then figured out why was this lady always loading her car with groceries. So, one day she asks the lady what is all this food for. The lady stated that the food was for a food pantry that was created to help feed the homeless and that a lot of people were getting the food for food banks/pantries this food away.

I have been thinking that this would be awesome for the homeless since they are banned from sleeping outside. They have limited places to keep their possessions. They have limited places to shower and use bathrooms. If I could help, I would find an efficient way to store personal belongs, a public restroom which included showers.

Saint Frances has an efficient way to exchange clothing, do chores twice a day. You can shower and use the restrooms too! This is a day shelter but most day shelters are strategically placed to keep the homeless away from most people. A traveling shower and restroom on certain days would make it more convenient. The traveling laundry trucks are the most ingenious idea I have heard of. What if there were a traveling restroom and shower during those days too, then the homeless could get all of those basic needs met.

I have found that people are scared of the homeless, but they do not understand that most of them have mental issues which cause them to not bath or work on their conditions. Some will recognize their issues and start to work on them as they are on their way to not being homeless but most will stay homeless because they can not see what is happening to them.

I hope for the homeless sake that they may get some urban rest stops to help them deal with their situation. Please comment with your thoughts!

Source: Urban Rest Stops

I was waiting by the bus stop to meet a friend for breakfast. This little old man came up to me and said hello. His eyes were leveled with my breast, so of course, he kept looking at them. He asked where I worked twice, and I told him twice I go to school. I told him I lived at the building down the street. He asked if I was single. Then he asked,” It’s been a long time without boyfriend?”. I said a few months.  Continue reading ….