MEMBER BLOG TAG: prosperity
| Thursday, April 28, 2011 1:35AM | | | | DE-GENTRIFY NEW YORK/Fire! | Tags: Hmm how about Kundera, thanks to Schulman, & Jane Jacobs instead?
“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, only because, and only when
| | | | People can become New Yorkers but NY can't become someplace else." - Sarah Schulman
On the way home to finish this piece, there were firemen in front of my apt bldg. I sniffed. Whew acrid. “Did someone do something stupid again?” I said.
1st fireman laughed, sarcastic, “Oh no, not something stupid, not the plethora [old NYC education] of a--- who constantly waste our time.” A few months ago, a resident of a loft (made from 3 apts, the cruelty of dislodging many for few was mentioned by our PEN panel) in back of my small strange apt, ran down a woman in her late 70s, getting out of the fire they ignored chasing after their (smarter) dog ; he was... | | | | | | | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:32PM | | | | Legend of Bob the Good | Tags: homeless, prosperity, hungry, minimum wage, church volunteer
| | | | THE LEGEND OF BOB THE GOOD
He was often called Bob the Good, most often by himself. He gave one percent more than a tithe, after taxes. He sat on the front row at worship service and said amen in a manly, robust way. In Sunday School class he sadly shook his head at heresy, factual error or perverse interpretation. When the teacher called upon Bob to pray and Bob saw two other Bobs rising he rushed into prayer ahead of them. Also ahead of his thoughts. “I pledge allegiance to the...Holy Bible and to the God for which it stands. And... | | | | | |
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