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Having a bad day? A lot of people are. The first frost of the fall when I’ve been in the van hit last night. One word, COLD. But there are more people out there without a dry, warm sleeping bag to crawl out of into that cold. They don’t have a shelter, a van, car or even a cardboard box to shiver in.
There are people who are in a warm house, but who don’t have legs and can’t walk. Paralyzed in Iraq, or a car accident, or hit by …
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Next week, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 11:55 EST, I’ll be a guest on the Laura Lavigne Show.http://www.tinyurl.com/talkshow.BeckyBlanton
Laura is a life coach extraordinare! She says she’s blessed to “have met and / or studied under exceptional individuals such as Eckart Tolle (A New Earth), Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements), Barbara Sher (Wishcraft) and Michael Losier (The Law of Attraction).” She’s also a Founding Member of the International Association of Coaches.
Her book, “Pink Hair and Chocolate Cookies,” is a book about the things I love to write about - essential …
At one of the many parties held during TED Global 2009, I found myself talking to folks next to a skeleton of a dinosaur - a Tyrannosaurus Rex - pictured here. Someone had set their wine glass at his feet. Another had draped a jacket over his “knee” or whatever its called. The idea of this creature roaming, destroying and killing people and things thousands of years ago - and his/her skeleton now serving as a backdrop for a glass of wine and a coat-rack just fascinated me more …
Sometimes our light goes out…..
But it is blown again, into flame,
By an encounter with another human being.
Each of us owes our deepest thanks
To those who have rekindled…….
This inner light.
- Albert Schweitzer
When I was in ROTC in college one of my better friends in the squad …
[Josh Grimes]
There’s a reason I hate fraternities. This story is one of them. The same year and month I left my job to live in a van in Colorado, Josh Grimes, a former Oregon State University student and fraternity member (Alpha Gamma Rho for all you proud frat rats) shot a homeless man, Dennis Sanderson, for sport. The man was in the alley behind the fraternity house looking for cans in the dumpster. This wasn’t the first time a fraternity member shot a homeless man, but it was the …
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.”
- Samuel Adams
A little over three years ago I was one of millions of unnamed, unknown homeless people living in a van in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Denver, Colorado. Then I was a little better known, having spoken at TED Global. Now that the video of the …
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