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Monday, 07 May 2012

  • ""Poor sick crippled old man needs cheap lodging"

    The headline says it all.  After over ten years of being a model tenant at the Land and Cabins strip at  parks Highway Mile 48.5, I am being evicted--actually we all are, as the owner plans to shut the strip down.

    I don't need much room--I share my 10x12 foot cabin with five cats, although I do need storage space for my merchandise--I run a small retail business, mostly selling out of the back of my car.

    I AM poor--in a good year, I clear maybe $15,000, with which I support three adults.  I have several chronic ailments--glaucoma and arthritis and ME/CFIS, that I know of--and am partly disabled because of  having lost four toes to frostbite.  I will be  old enough for Social Security in October, but I need to be relocated before then.

    I hope to find a place I can afford in the /Houston/Wasilla/Big Lake area.

    Anyone local reading this who may know of a lead, please call me at 232-1663.  Thanks.

    Currently
    A Course in Miracles
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Friday, 30 March 2012

  • Surgery is set for next week

    Finally got the surgery to have the frostbit toes amputated--next week, April 4.  I am looking forward to finally healing up, after months of disability and pain.

    No idea how I'll pay for any of it, being pretty much broke.   I am getting groceries via food stamps, clothing free from the Community Closet in Big Lake. Heck, in a good year, my income is below the poverty level, and it has been three years since I had a "good' year.  But really, there is nothing good or bad, but thinking made it so--Shakespeare said it first.

    I keep thinking about Matthew 5:30, which says  (more or less) that is preferable to lose a few body parts than to go to Hell altogether.  When I was rich, had a corrupt political job, and spent enough on alcohol to put a kid through college, I was living in Hell.

    Now--despite the pain, poverty, and disability--there is no one on the planet with whom I would trade places.

    Not that I am in any way special--I was just lucky enough to have some really good teachers, and smart enough to pay attention to them.

    Currently
    A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume
    By Dr. Helen Schucman
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Monday, 23 January 2012

  • "Turn off the hate"

    Are you disgusted by the hateful, lying poltical ads we are being subjected to?  I surely am.  Therefore, I vow to turn off the TV or radio every time I hear an attack ad, particularly those anonymous smear jobs the Supreme Court allowed  recently--those Super-pac ads, which conveniently allow the candidates themselves to repudiate them.

    I bet if everyone would do this--and inform the radio and TV stations that we are doing so--we might just see some results.

     

    Who is with me?  Anyone wanting to spread this idea , go for it.  I don't want any credit, I just want to be able to watch some TV without  feeling like I need to take a shower.

Monday, 19 December 2011

  • Back to the drawing board. . .

    In a manner of speaking.  Seems the  persistant blur in my right eye  following the cataract operation was not inflammation, but scar tissue.  So some time next year I will have to return to Anchorage for some laser surgery.  I am not real happy about this.

    For one thing, we can't afford it.  I am in the midst of a five-week spell of unemployment, and we are already about $5,000 farther in debt than we were this time last year, partly  because of my health issues. 

    For another, I dunno how to get there--I do not do well in city traffic, and if Kathy drives me, she will most likely relapse.  This is assuming she will be healthy enough to drive me at all. PAying someone to drive me isn't an option. 

    I am hoping another angel shows up with some financial aid. . . . .

    Heck, I really did not intend for this to sound like a bummer, but I figured someone would maybe like to know that I am by no means out of the woods with this eye stuff.  My glaucoma seems to be getting worse--I'll know more next month--my eye doctor will be at a free clinic in Talkeetna, and I have an appointment to see him then.

    Currently
    A Course in Miracles
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