SERIES:
PUBLIC ENEMY
NUMBER ONE
Wanda says, "Back in my youthful search for glamour, I started as a back-to-school model for Bullock’s Department Store, graduated to the showroom modeling cocktail dresses for Miss Elliette of California’s, and also landed a photo shoot in Griffith Park with me astride the bike (left) that I never actually rode."
Part 1 - Were The Okies California's First Homeless Families?
“GIVING life the shape of justice” from the Unitarian Universalist hymn raises questions: If it were easy to sing
society back to health, would vocal music lose its appeal? Its power?
More important than where you’re moved to sing spontaneously is when you sing?
Do you trill when happiness makes you feel like singing joy to the world?
When you’re so low-level lonely you could cry?
Or when you’re a-flutter—fluxing, flying and flowing—to survive daily life?
Whether we have perfect pitch, or we’re downright flat, we’re all part of the Vox Populi, Latin for “Voice
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Part 2 - Is It Too Late To Save The Great American Dream?
EXPOSING how soviet psycho-politics operated, Ukrainian defector Victor Kravchenko claimed in his 1946
best-seller “I Chose Freedom”: If the People can be turned against each other, the Soviet Union will win its
takeover of America without firing a single weapon.
That was then while this is now. So?
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Part 3 - Will America Ever See The Monkeys For The Trees?
UNDERSTANDING America’s metaphoric “monkey mind” might help clarify why I feel Homelessness is now
Public Enemy Number One.
If Buddha were here, he’d correct my errors, if any, about what I’ve learned from four years of Dharma
talks at weekly Wednesday-night Buddhist Sanghas at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Carmel. Interested in
knowing more?
Namaste!
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Part 4 - Are We Ready For What's To Come In The World Of Work?
HAVING no money to pay rent is the top reason homeless individuals claim they’re unsheltered.
If the 2019 Point-in-Time Census & Survey figures are accurate, there are 2,422 homeless persons in
Monterey County and 76 percent (1,830) are unsheltered.
I personally think the figures are far too low! (CLICK TO CONTINUE READING...)
Part 5 - Will The Marriage Of American Liberty And Law Survive?
NAMING collective homelessness as “Public Enemy Number One” just four weeks ago leads me to ask now: If
the President of the US is impeached, how will the case unofficially known as Miss Liberty versus Uncle Sam
turn out?
Imagine this scenario:
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