Homeless—old vacant Rite Aide “Drug store” Leaving the vacant GoodWill store was traumatic as usual; in the same way all the odd places I have made a home, rough sleeping, have been. Homelessness has been the worse experience of my life; terrifying, overwhelming, hopeless at times, but yet in some ways I’m…
Smear Campaign
Homeless~Old Vacant Good Will Store Awake at 3am, after loud noise from Semi-trucks continues all night long. I have been rough sleeping in front of the old vacant “Good Will” store for the past month; still looking for housing n jobs, still trying to live my life, but my savings is gone now n…
Saying GoodBye To The Old Barn
Homeless~Sanford Barn, Amsterdam NY Changes keep coming n haven’t stopped for awhile now. I’m no longer in the old barn, the Sheriff’s, State Police, n the guy that manages the place told me I had to leave. He is n old classmate that w a couple others told me shortly after I was removed from…
Freak Storms
Old Sandford Barn—Amsterdam NY Woke up soaking wet, hearing what seemed like Trees falling; cracking, breaking—ominous. I peeled out of the mummy bag to see everything covered in snow. I had been checking the weather, but thought it just snow flurries. No, it was a full blown snow storm. The pines bending almost to the…
Helter Skelter
The Light Shifts—Rhonda J Flanagan Photography Just when I thought I had gotten my eating to a place I could manager for the Winter, the weather changed. I woke up 3am vomiting my cheese sandwich. I also had a few White Claws to take the edge off, but after checking the cheese the next day,…
Confronting Enemies
Homeless~rough sleeping, Amsterdam NY, Fulton County NY, Sandford Farms It was a beautiful morning, the kind of Spring day u cherish after such a brutal Winter. By most accounts, the Winter wasn’t that bad, it wasn’t really snowy, icy, or long stretches of bitter cold, but I was still sleeping outside—homeless! I have yet to fully…
Involuntarly Committed
Homeless, sleeping on abandoned porch—Amsterdam NY The wind howled all night, March was hanging on to the bitter end; just when I thought I had survived Winter, but I couldn’t complain—I had survived! I needed to remind myself of that, there was still a long way to go, but I had survived the worse. I…
One Suitcase
Homeless—RiverLink Park, Amsterdam NY Watching images of people walking the road to the border with one suitcase was hard. War In Ukraine! Headlines read. The journalist reporting live from a road out of Ukraine to the border. It was hard to watch. People had driven hours trying to leave their Country in the midst of…
Sacral Chakra
https://apple.news/AbzNgre3gRIaLb-VtsQoT1Q Didn’t want to write this morning, except for the sunrise it was n awful morning. I woke up crying again. It was too cold to get out of the mummy bag n I was in pain; achy, sore, feeling like I had been punched repeatedly in the left arm. My back was wet from…
Super Bowl Sunday
Photography collage — Rhonda J Flanagan Waking up to a mouse rummaging through my small bag of garbage, probably a field mouse I think; little, gray, looking for a snack. I empty him from the bag, sighing how cold it is, but how can I complain? It’s been pretty warm considering it’s the dead of Winter….
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