Boot Strap-ist: N. One who: 1. believes all adversity can be overcome by trying harder; 2. is oblivious to invisible blessing in life such as looks, smarts, education, race, class, and role models; 3. can be heard saying, “If I can do it anyone can.” See also: Randian Twit. I read The Fountain Head in [...]
I felt like the chosen one at the Good Friday service this evening. My flower came with a ladybug. St. Gregory’s handed out flowers to lay on the alter and as I took mine a ladybug walked onto my hand. It seemed like a miracle. The incense and chanting makes one prone to delusions, but [...]
Yesterday I was waiting to meet up with my outreach compatriots, sitting in my car and watching all the humans walking, driving, running, biking along Mission Street. I spend a lot of time thinking about humans, being annoyed, baffled and loving them. I was talking to my dad the other day who said, “Humans, they [...]
While I was at the VA Hospital this week I spent some of my spare time looking through patient education handouts for some that I could use to hand out to the ladies I see during street/SRO outreach. I’m hoping to set up a mini hypertension screening service for the women we see regularly, and [...]
I am at the San Francisco VA hospital for my second semester rotation of nursing school. A side effect of this has been to put vets, especially homeless vets, high on my radar. Today a gentleman was panhandling outside of the grocery store and his sign said he was a Vietnam vet, so I gave [...]
It seems like a million years since I first heard about Mayor Newsom’s plans to revitalize 6th and Market. My knee-jerk reaction was to oppose it; if you revitalize 6th and Market, a well established hangout spot for the “undesirable” members of the population of San Francisco, then where will they go? In the game [...]