by: Michael Watkins

There was a point when I began to feel as if it was pointless to continue to try to provide a "voice for the voiceless," but it really is not because there are those out there who are still looking for new postings, news stories, articles, etc. I am approached daily by someone who asks me about any new content on this site and I told them I was doing it no longer and they were in a state of great disbelief at this revelation.

I know now that I cant stop providing thought provoking, news stories and such on this site.

Therefore, it is my announcement that I am back in the drivers seat and will not cast in my hat until the day tha homelessness has successfully come to an end...if such a day should and will ever come.

The homeless, themselves, ask me each day about this site and the content therein and I tell them it is of no more and they plead with me not to end it. They tell me how they would miss it and me, if I did and express how we need it n how they don't want that

Confidentially...neither do I want to do that.

So, I am back!!!

Maybe I am a glutton for punishment, but for me, it is a true labor of love for my fellow homeless people and for me, so we all will win in this endeavor, but I still will need your help.

You must continue to tell everyone about this site and its content and continue to read it daily.

Send in articles, postings, writings, etc, to further your knowledge base regarding homelessness, because you can't know how to end hoemelssness, if you have no knowledge of it. I dom't meam, from a text book or a case study...get practical application from those who are involved in homelessness...the homeless themselves!

WE are not all bad people.

Some of us have just fallen on hard times, some of us have made some bad choices and are seeking help to find our way back into the mainstream.

Regardless of the reasons of someone's homelessness, I am here to say that we are still human beings and deserve to be treated as such and nothing less.

Try getting to know us on an individual basis...it just may surprise you the different walks of life we all have come from...how intelligent we all are..hw conveatinl we all are...how talented we all are.

So...if nobody else will stand up for the homeless...then...

I WILL !!!

It is not my job to do it...

It is my privilege !

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