Family Bond Paper™

Shelters are a great alternative when you have no friends or family or nowhere else to reside. The first question that a housing or assistance caseworker will ask you is-- "Do you have friends or family that you can live with?" Often shelters are filled to capacity.  If you are shelter registered,  your shelter caseworker will take your contact information and contact you when there is availability. So it is important to provide a reliable contact phone number and mailing address. Always request to have a caseworker or the name of a regular staff person on site.  You may need the contact name for any applicable housing benefit award, and to provide to a landlord for consideration. When you reside in a shelter there is limited space for personal belongings.  In fact, I would suggest that you keep such belongings in your personal vehicle.  Otherwise, you will live out of black trash bags for the timeframe of your stay. It is important to purchase...

Over and over again, we rally; we protest; we debate. Is this a form of cultural hypnosis so that we, natural born citizens of this country, won't participate in newness? An example, we say we are for immigrants coming to our country, but what is the first thing that we do? We grab their children and place them into our world of normalcy of how we believe we should treat strangers. Is this yet another form of hypnosis? Then, we start to verbalize: "Yeah we're all for immigration." Why haven't we really resolved the immigration crisis? Or, to avoid our own country's social issues, many citizens will show more actions of love to immigrants than to natural born citizens of this country. We allow our leaders to make laws for us that, here recently, get overturned during each presidential administration. I realize that we live in a democracy and that our democratic actions are to rally, protest, and debate--really, should it be over the same social topics agai...

After recently celebrating Juneteenth and diversity, what's next? With the reality that most people of color feel challenged by the ranking term 'powers that be,' it can be challenging in getting such mindsets to think differently. Sometimes the powers that be are actually non-existent, and simply negative thinking by others who we traditionally care about, and those we trust and mostly communicate with consistently. Are the majority of America's people-of-color thinking that slavery is our only existence in this country? Each time there is a new mishap, socially, or an advocative voice is truly heard, it seems to cause a delay, pause or ending of personal pursuits and social pursuits by such mindsets: "'I'm so frustrated, forget it.' Or, there is a habitual thinking that, well, so-and-so tried ..., and look what happened to them.  Are we being held back physically from being who we are purposed to be? If so, why? In my opinion, if we ever perform ...

Every person appreciates when another says "Hello, I hear you. I hear your unique sound and I am going to help you to become or to pursue what you need to do to achieve in being the best you." In other words, the person truly understands the specific goal objective of your unique skill/talent (the possibility of your unique sound). The person truly understands the specific talent that has been bestowed upon you. The person then becomes helpful to you or afraid of you. Yes, all humans have a unique sound!  Isn't it great to know that we each have a unique skill or talent? Is it not great to know that we don't have to be like another--we can be our unique selves? You just have to learn self-development of how to persuade another or a group without appearing to be too pushy (within the social traditions). You, also, must learn social-culture settings, and who to personally discuss your personal dreams and desires to. I believe that the challenge of knowing self...