Belongings dumped—Amsterdam Police Station lobby. Woke up cold, hungry, and damp. It had poured all day yesterday and I spent it shivering in the new sleeping bag I just got from Walmart, my second one. It was toasty and warm in the Abandoned House, rating of 10 degrees, but once cold on the inside of…
Author: Rhonda J Flanagan
Sounds Of Sadness
Abandoned House and Little CD/Radio player I wasn’t going to write, I felt sad after another abusive encounter with cops after I went to church. I had thought that after such a nice sermon, a sunny day of highs in the 50s, and writing for awhile after a nice breakfast, I would try and get…
Travel Light
Amsterdam RiverLink Park 2021 Warmer this morning, highs will be in the 50s all week, which is nice for Upstate NY in November. I went to church and it was another nice sermon I’m grateful I was able to attend. Traveling light and not attaching to things too much. I love our Priest and his…
Maid
Woke up at 3am, neighbor next door continues the noise harassment. It’s piercing intervals of electronic buzzing, humming, and gets louder and then quieter; alternating between tempos so you can’t get used to it. I usually wake up, only sleeping a couple hours before it starts again. It was 27 degrees this morning, my little…
Jock Culture
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/28/1049910345/kyle-beach-reveals-chicago-blackhawks-coach-assaulted-him It’s another difficult week. I hate when I don’t sleep well, it makes the day even more difficult. The noise harassment has continued at the Abandoned House like all the other places I have tried to live. My ex would always wake me around 3am, I never knew until the end of our 20yr…
Money
Sitting here listening to people go over their Financial portfolio after I went to the gym and finally was able to at least run a mile. I had been training for a 5k before all this started, but became so weak, I was having trouble walking, but now things are getting better. I’m feeling stronger…
Say Her Name
I hadn’t thought about my SIL Renee Bayes in a long time. I had been struggling to survive for awhile now and the last memories of her were too painful. I had put it behind me, as I was often forced to do, but now that I was being stalked again in the same violent…
Disappearing Houses
I sat in Stewart’s, my usual place most mornings now, after sleeping on a bench in the Homeless Veterans Park, watching another row of houses being taken down. The past couple days, watching 7 living trees being killed, on the street below. The beautiful logs being fed into a shredder, the pile of wet, muddy…
Homeless Whore
I woke up soaking wet. It had poured all night, a cold rain heralding Fall. The windy kind that takes the leaves off the trees and portends Winter. My little blue $30 Walmart sleeping bag was soaked. I loved the little bag, but it would be no match for October. I was cold, shivering, and…
