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Success

All social welfare programs hamper success. If you work and earn money, you lose your benefits, including medical, food stamps, and housing vouchers. There is no gradual easing off. So people are frozen, traumatized by the fact that if they work, they lose everything.   The Section 8 program is a prime example of a […]

What is Success?

What is life but a series of successes and failures. Success is different for everyone.   For a child it might be learning hop scotch, for an adolescent surviving middle school, for a young adult finding a career they are passionate about, or a love interest. It might be hitting middle age, successfully raising children […]

What is Success?

Success starts with the word suck. Success isn’t supposed to suck but sometimes the inevitable happens. Life lets you down. Sometimes, a person needs a kick in the butt to go forward. Just a little push or help. No matter it it’s as a friend to talk to or someone you can go to.   […]

Slum Prayer

Myriad of slums, A place only for bums. I pray to God to take me away And leave me not in the slums to decay. I am so very poor, My shack has not even a door. Instead of books and things to read, My body aches from working: doing deeds For my master who […]

Sea Gull Freedom

I see the sea gull flying low Over the horizon to and fro And I hold out my hand As if to say Come in to land And visit me today.   But the sea gull is not coming to me. The sea gull is forever wild and free. The seagull will never come to […]