Billy Bob’s Corner
Introduction to Simply Solutions
Looking at Simply Solutions is not a view that many in the ‘helping the homeless’ world’ take very often, we have been told it can’t be fixed. Solutions are not there for them, solutions are not to be expected for those people. Answers and hope cannot be found for them on the streets ‘cause it […]
An Introduction to Talk Some Simply Truth
Today’s blog is a little different then most we have read over the past few months. You must take time to read it carefully, the plot line is a bit sarcastic in nature about what is and is not built with truth and how truth has been thrown out. It also looks at the facts […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply A Note
Today’s blog we find a common retort to the homeless, ’go get a job,’ but have you stopped to think about the complication behind that statement? The statement, not the stereotypes in your heart. There is no job in any city where one person working full time can afford rent. Then you have to add […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply Deceased
Dying on the streets today we look at death, square in the face, death. No warm bed, no hospice nurse, no medications to help ease the discomfort, no family and most often it is not gentle. It can be unexpected in one’s sleep, it can be murder at the hands of another homeless one, it […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply Alone
Today I want to bring you to look at a system that is doing a job beyond what it was designed to do, it is doing what families and churches were originally designed to do. Today we will look at the fails of the foster system, now there are a few who come out okay, […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply Sad
Today, what is Sad, Feeling or showing unhappiness or regret, that is such a clean and precise definition for what can really bog people down when they are trying to wade through homelessness back to self-sufficiency again. We do not often think of being sad as that profound a situation or issue, but if you […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply a Veteran
Today we mention the Army, the Navy, the Marines and the Air Forces and we say thank you and that we are grateful. But then we turn in this blog and we look at the flip side and see the suffering of the broken veterans who did not come home whole or well. Home can […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply Family End
There is a finite end for too many on the streets and it is not a warm bed and roof over their heads. The solution mindset has left the game of working with the homeless and it just manage and keep them less desperate then they were yesterday. A lousy game to play with people’s […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply Hopeless
In this blog we touch briefly on a subject many never have to grasp or understand, that is hopelessness. Even in our darkest days, hope rarely leaves us who have homes, jobs, warm beds, and food. Yes we can go through dark times, grief, loss and struggle, but the gut wrenching pit of despair called […]
A Word on Introduction to Simply Stereotyped
Stereotype, an often untrue and unfair persona held by many people about all people with particular characteristics. Today we will investigate how dangerous and ineffective this behavior is when considering the homeless and attempting to help them. The shelters function on this error and many on left to suffer, and even on the streets, unacceptable. […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply Truth
What is truth, we are hearing my truth today as never before, but truth varies all too much. Today we look at skewed truth related to homelessness and how we interact with them. Truth and reality and facts all impact our truth and our truth frames how we function in this world. The government has […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply a Re-Start
Today we are going to engage in a touchy subject, why touchy, because it hits the homeless is a choice on the head. If it is a choice, then why should they need a re-start? If it is a choice, why is a re over important? If by their own free will they got into […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply Fear
We have already looked at Frightened, today we will investigate Fear. It is a deeper, darker, harder emotion then frightened. Basically, it is a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, real or imagined. All of have dealt with fear and some of us have dealt with paralyzing fear. However imagine living with this level of […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply My Family
Hello, today we look at what is called family. Each of us has a story or two about family. Each of has a family of birth, adoption, blending and they come with unique blessings and complications. What about a family that is knitted together on the street, with other homeless folks, is that a family […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply Real:
Hello, today I ask you this profoundly simple question, when was the last time you were so very hungry that you could feel you stomach doubling over on itself? So thirsty that your throat were trying to close over? Or so tired that you were nearly sleep walking? There are basic life issues that we […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply Invisible:
Today let’s look at invisibility for a moment. Not perceptible by vision, the population of people trapped in the cycle of homelessness, for which at this present time there is no answer are invisible. Now the issues and concerns are plainly visible. But the people and humanity of the homeless are inviable, not perceptible by […]
A Word of Introduction to Simply Discouraged:
Today, I want to introduce a word to you, Discouraged, so let’s read. To live a life of being discouraged without hope for tomorrow is no way to live.
A Word of Introduction to Simply Tired:
Reflect on life's basic struggles and our responsibility to help. A thought-provoking question about hunger, thirst, and homelessness in society.