A Reliable Audience
The homeless are the audience on days when there aren’t many people on Hippie Hill watching the drums. You can tell they’re homeless because they’re under blankets, trying to stay warm in their thin...
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A Reliable Audience # 5 The homeless are the audience on days when there aren’t many people on Hippie Hill watching the drums. You can tell they’re homeless because they’re under blankets, trying to...
View ArticleGoing Home
Going Home # 6 At the end of the day a vivid procession is seen, as the homeless move across the meadow toward the woods where they make their camps at night. They have all their belongings with...
View ArticleA Lifetime of Kindness
A Lifetime of Kindness # 11 He sets up a camp on the lawn with many of the comforts of home, within inches of the drum circle. Early in the day he spreads out blankets on which he arranges an array...
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❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❀❦❁❧❀❧ THE NOMADS BUSLOADS OF TOURISTS The hippies have been chased away from sitting on the front steps of the McDonald’s that’s on the corner of Haight Street...
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❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❀❦❁❧❀❧ THE NOMADS BUSLOADS OF TOURISTS The hippies have been chased away from sitting on the front steps of the McDonald’s that’s on the corner of Haight Street...
View ArticleAn Aura of Freedom
An Aura of Freedom All I gave them was a panful of soggy burritos wrapped in foil, left over from a party the night before. The love I got back seemed out of proportion to my small gift. The big...
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THE HAIGHT You can tell it’s not an ordinary place. The ornate Victorian row houses in the neighborhoods around the Haight are incredibly beautiful, like jewelry boxes or elaborate cakes in pastel...
View ArticleGOD’S EYES
GOD’S EYES I first noticed them at the next bench over from the drummers’ bench, a separate group of homeless youth who often congregated there. They wore different clothes than the rest of the...
View ArticleGOD’S EYES
I first noticed them at the next bench over from the drummers’ bench, a separate group of homeless youth who often congregated there. They wore different clothes than the rest of the people. Their...
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GOD’S EYES I first noticed them at the next bench over from the drummers’ bench, a separate group of homeless youth who often congregated there. They wore different clothes than the rest of the...
View ArticleThe Lilies of the Field
THE LILIES OF THE FIELD People look at them sideways as they pass by along their way toward the drum circle. These street kids are the dustiest, wildest-looking bunch on Sharon Meadow. They look as...
View ArticleThe Clean Air of the Untouched
THE CLEAN AIR OF THE UNTOUCHED To see the people at the Campground, those completely inexperienced new arrivals there in these snug little cabins they’d built themselves, was to realize that most...
View ArticleBLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
God’s Message to Treehuggers and Peacemakers: BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS: for they shall be called the children of God. (Matthew (5:9) BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER...
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God’s Message to Treehuggers and Peacemakers: BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS: for they shall be called the children of God. (Matthew 5:9) BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND...
View ArticleA Reliable Audience
A Reliable Audience # 5 The homeless are the audience on days when there aren’t many people on Hippie Hill watching the drums. You can tell they’re homeless because they’re under blankets, trying to...
View ArticleGoing Home
Going Home # 6 At the end of the day a vivid procession is seen, as the homeless move across the meadow toward the woods where they make their camps at night. They have all their belongings with...
View ArticleA Lifetime of Kindness
A Lifetime of Kindness # 11 He sets up a camp on the lawn with many of the comforts of home, within inches of the drum circle. Early in the day he spreads out blankets on which he arranges an array...
View ArticleBusloads of Tourists
❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❁❧❀❧❦❀❦❀❦❁❧❀❧ THE NOMADS BUSLOADS OF TOURISTS The hippies have been chased away from sitting on the front steps of the McDonald’s that’s on the corner of Haight Street...
View ArticleAn Aura of Freedom
An Aura of Freedom All I gave them was a panful of soggy burritos wrapped in foil, left over from a party the night before. The love I got back seemed out of proportion to my small gift. The big...
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