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The Fruitless Deeds of Darkness
The Fruitless Deeds of Darkness
Hello my friends. It has been a long time. I look forward to being here on a regular basis now and share with you words of experience.
I'm sorry it has taken so long to return to this journal and be among my friends. Friends I had missed and admired. Hopefully, this time I will be able to make regular entries.
I wish to thank my journal friends for the support they have given me and the concern they have had during this journey into the darkness of our society. Especially, Aimer, Wanderer (Bea) and Raven as well as others. Last year your words of encouragement and support made a difference.
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http://journals.aol.com/rdautumnsage/ravens-lament/
Thank you AOL for preserving my journal and allowing me to return to it after such a long absent.
After over a decade in Las Vegas riding the roller coaster of life I was once again homeless in February. On the 7th of April after being exhausted and broke and defeated I had decided to take advantage of a free bus ticket back to New York. I waited in line at the St. Vincent Catholic Charity from 3:00AM until 10:30AM in the blustering cold. You must stand during the entire time and can not sleep or slump or else the guards will remove you from the property.
At 6:00 AM you sign in for the bus ticket. I was first in line. The gentleman behind me had waited the week before, but no one showed after sign-in to process the tickets. Metro Police department has a program called PATH that provide the bus tickets and screen for criminals before issuing. Each person must have some one at the destination who will accept a phone call and agree to take you in once you arrive. Only the first ten persons or couples are issued tickets which are provided once a week on Mondays.
I waited for nothing. No one showed. I learned a couple had waited in line for three weeks in a row. My friend in New York called Metro in Las Vegas. Metro said they had no such program and referred him to Social Service. Social Services said that the program was out of funding and no bus tickets would be passed out. No notice was issued by Metro, social services or Catholic Charity.
Well, Las Vegas you missed your opportunity to get me out of town. The evil deeds of those whose job it is to help seems to include to let a program that currently does not exist to appear to exist.
Thanks for joining me. God Bless You.
And Always Remember JESUS LOVES YOU!
Friday, 11 April 2008
River
Las Vegas, Nevada
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hi
I don't know what to say about your horrible experience.
I would like to get to know you better.
I hope you are able to keep your courage up.
Marti
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Hi River, I'm coming by way of Bea. I do remember reading some of your entries last year. I think we all need to keep it in the back of our minds that at any time any one of us is one step away from being homeless. I really have a very hard time understanding how a country of our size and money can let people live on the streets without food, meds, etc. or how they can allow the poverty that exists. Just blows my mind. I'll be eager to read more. Chris
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Hi Welcome back. I remember reading a bit of your journal way back when I was myself just startung my hournal, I wondered what had hapened to you and now our friend Bea tells me you are around again.. I am so pleased. I have now got you on my alerts so look forward to reading much more about you a bit later. Much Love for now Sybil
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River!!! Welcome back. Your first entry back reflects, somewhat, what our country has a whole lot of: programs start to help others, then fall apart due to lack of funds, organiziation, and personnel. It is so frustrating to hear on the news all the good things going on... little chunks of goodness spread out over the area of the world, helping some people, leaving many countless more out. There was one such news story on last night, about what is being done with medications that were prescribed but the patient may have died, or the patient's prescription was changed, leaving their first prescription untouched. I'm talking about like goes on at nursing homes, where lots of meds are given. They're in blister packs. What happens to those millions of dollars worth of helpful drugs, drugs that are not expired, that are vital for patients with heart conditions, who need blood thinners, pain killers, .... any kind of condition for the elderly and sick, there were drugs, thousands and thousands of packages, unopened, sitting in boxes. A nurse was shown popping out each pill from the blister packs... not just one nurse, other people as well... their job was to take the prescribed drugs, pop them from the blister pack into a baggie. A nurse took a two-gallon sized zip lock baggie to the toilet, held it over, and flushed them all down. She does this repeatedly, flushing away millions maybe billions of dollars worth of meds because they were prescribed, but the patient is dead now, or no longer on that Rx. Why? The question was asked... why can't poor people, or homeless people who need drugs get this medicine? It's already paid for by our tax dollars!!!! All paid for, flushing down the toilet. Where is the sense in this? Welcome back, River. I'll be back to read more. Just glad to hear you are back. bea
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