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Photo by PicMonkey.com. Quote from ServiceSpace.org
Inspired by Mita Shah. How does your garden grow? I’d love to know.
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“This past Saturday my wife, Rebecca, was taking my son Jonah and a few friends put-put golfing for his birthday party. On the way there he saw a man with a sign asking for help. Jonah, feeling concerned for the man, immediately asked Rebecca to do something. She could read between the lines that it didn’t feel right to him that he’d be off celebrating with his friends while this man seemed unsupported…” -Ariel Nessel. Continued here: Jonah’s Birthday Wish by Ariel Nessel, on ServiceSpace.org
☼ Happy Birthday Jonah! ☼ Thank you for sharing from your heart on your birthday and, no doubt, every day. You are a very cool kid and an inspiration. ^_^ ♥.
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☼ A “Giftivism” Initiative ☼
We are photographers,
writers, artists & advocates
serving and connecting
homeless creatives.
♥ Gems: A Thank-You Note ♥
Who Inspires You to Be Your Best Self?
Our homeless artists inspire me every day. Johnny O has been on the street for 20 years, and he has never given up. He constantly focuses on helping others, on improving his life and on giving to the world with his uplifting and inspiring poetry.
Cord is a very gentle soul whose quiet presence and comments on Simbi made me feel so welcome there when I joined. He was homeless for a long time, but he keeps a gorgeous poetry blog that blew me away first time (and every time) I read it. He’s so talented. He also takes some of the most stunning photos I’ve ever seen.
I was homeless as a teen in 1974 (a runaway for a week) and again in 1997 when I lost literally everything. Both times, I met some really cool people who live in the cracks between everyone else’s reality. These are my people — the ones I feel most comfortable with. I guess that’s because, in my own way, I live in the fringes too, made “homeless” in this world by my own demons. I live in shelter, in comfort, with abundance and with as much support as I could possibly need. Yet both these kind souls have never judged me and have been really supportive about under1000skies.
The irony of an agoraphobic trying to help the homeless is not lost on me. I hope some day it will be a really cool part of the story of how I overcame this thing; about how under1000skies thrived; and about how, together, we connected and helped homeless artists around the world.
Who inspires you to be your best self?
Posted on KindSpring here: 300 Days of Gratitude Day 13: Who Inspires You to Be Your Best Self?
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Under an oak tree
a young girl heard music, a
promise yet to be.
A chorus of songs,
one by one, they came. She sang
each song joyfully;
Every song engraved
deeply on her grateful heart
for eternity.
Niki Flow
“There is a legend of a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor even conceived but from the day that the child was a thought in its mother’s mind. When a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and listens until she can hear the song of the child that wants to come…” -Nipun Mehta, -Embrace the Grace, Celebrate the Infinite-
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☼ A “Giftivism” Initiative ☼
We are photographers,
writers, artists & advocates
serving and connecting
homeless creatives.
News!
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
New content, new photos, new inspiration. #under1000skies will begin again on Monday May 21st. There’s also news about my @jazztizz #missingson Benjamin that gives me more hope than I have had in two years. Details as soon as I get confirmation. Special thanks tonight to LBD for her love-driven detective work.
♡nf
UPDATE:
Turns out, the address Ben’s friends found through their dogged detective work was an old one. Still hopeful and grateful for their help. ♥
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Until further notice, under1000skies is going offline. We are still accepting gratefully any contributions. We’ll go live again as soon as we can get a body of work to share. In the meantime, please share our site with anyone who might know homeless creatives or those who support them who would like to be featured here.
Have a great weekend. ♡.
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☼ A “Giftivism” Initiative ☼
We are photographers,
writers, artists & advocates
serving and connecting
homeless creatives.
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☼ A “Giftivism” Initiative ☼
We are photographers,
writers, artists & advocates
serving and connecting
homeless creatives.
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