TONY HILLERMAN quote from his memoir

From TONY HILLERMAN's SELDOM DISAPPOINTED a Memoir
C 2001 by the author
HarperCollinsPublishers

page 66-67

"The Depression had made it socially acceptable to be out on the road without bus ticket money. With the unemployment rate about 30 percent, those fortune enough to be driving certainly had friends or relatives uprooted and homeless drifting around in the hope that they'd find work over the horizon. Then came the war, further uprooting, gasoline rationing, jam-packed public transportation, and millions of men trying to get home or back to camp. Failing to pick up someone with his thumb out was antisocial. Passing up one in uniform was akin to treason. For servicemen hitchhiking became so common that a protocol was developed. if others were seeking rides on your stretch of highway you moved down the line past them. They we4re expected to suggest to the driver who picked them up that you, too, would appreciate a ride. The point to the above being that hitchhiking was easy, orthodox, sometimes exciting....."

FINCA - an IDEA FOR THE UNITED STATES

If You'll click on the title above you'll get to the site for FINCA "Small Loans Big Changes" a non profit that is truly inspirational.

NOW CAN SOME AMERICAN START A SMALL LOANS PROGRAM FOR THE HOMELESS and OTHERS IN POVERTY HERE IN THE USA! Because I was "out of business" over a $200 computer repair at one time!

TWO PASTEL BUTTERFLIES

SOMETHING IN THE AIR - THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN

ANOTHER HOMELESS BLOG TO LOOK AT - CEO OF PATH - LA

Click on the link below to check out this blog, supposed to be owned by a CEO of a Los Angeles homeless program called PATH

OASIS - WONDERWALL

NATIONAL HOMELESS UNDERGROUND - BLOG

Click on the title above to get to this blog!

Here are some blurbs from it:

"In Greater Los Angeles, the number of homeless families receiving welfare benefits from the Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) increased 20 percent to almost 7,100 from June to August (2008), according to the paper."

"Similarly, the number of indigent adults, many of whom are homeless, receiving 221 dollars monthly general relief checks, has risen from about 61,500 at the beginning of the year to just over 70,000 in August, the paper said."

FIVE BUTTERFLIES

HOMELESS IN TEXAS - LIVING IN THE WOODS

HAVE A BETTER 2009!

The other day a woman who had spent some time downtown on skidrow before she became clean and sober told me that the first thing she wants to do when she's on her feet financially again is to go out and buy tennis shoes, jeans, and shirts, and cook up some soul food, and take it back downtown to give away!

What ever little you have, if you have enough to share, please do!