Fw: blog

What we have going here is amazing…thank God for all the volunteers and those who give and care..this amazing work we do…last nite I took a classic walk thru manhattan, one of the many places where people of faith and social work background often remember their work and their beginnings, helping the homelelss, the mentally ill, the questions of is a city dead of alive, what could bring it back..tomkins square park..the squatters, the community meetings and community gardens..then reflecting on the changes..wow no homeless. Avalon on the bowery..wait the bowery mission is still there, BRC community access..what kind of living spaces do we make..a city now of more alternative transport, bicyclists at nite with lites. Pedicabs, Nite Tours of tourists..all very interesting to say the least…the greed of the 80s the greed of 2008..the financial crisis then and now..the hope back then, the hope now…are we better..

Gustav missed the city, we think…the levees held. And need to be reinforced again..homes in St. Bernard, and Plaquemanns parish flooded, some breech, what is the breech anyway..the breech was never fixing the levees in the first place, the political games played with levee commissions in the past, the 1927 flooding of Plaquemann, at the loss to poor people like the Upper Ninth or St. Bernard..what breeches exist in our community today..the Breech against the Dream continuing and the reality of smoke and mirrors..the Operative word of Change nationally and the local padding of political machines no matter what party, the need to make society better for the future, versus the breech of after school and present school test scores and programs being cut and going down in a wealthy wealthy county…the shining of the gold of the tabernacles, due to success, versus the tabernacle of the poor apartment dweller working 80 hours, coming for a better life, but not allowing to believe their faith can bring dreams come true…well what questions I have and hopefully I can move towards some positive answers with you today, built on faith with no breech, built on a foundation of not politics but concrete love and action we need to have again…for the future to really CHANGE. God bless, jjk